Many professionals who care for strangers are not religious workers, but they play a pivotal role in reinforcing the imago Dei, the notion that all people are made in the image of God.

Manifesting techniques abound in the online world. But creators are conflating manifesting with prayer, especially in their love lives.

Aldous Huxley convinced me to try psychedelic drugs. Thomas Merton gave me a healthy suspicion of them.

Listen to Gemma’s homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year B, in which she explains how her experience of poverty in Brazil gave radical significance to Christ’s words: “Make your home in me as I make mine in you.”

The joys and challenges of a new child stretched me in ways I couldn’t have imagined.

Opportunities for authentic encounter were much needed in this parish of separate communities.