“If you have found the way to your heart, you have found the way to heaven.” - St. John Chrysostom The quintessence of Christianity is...

The Image of God is a concept and theological doctrine in Judaism, Christianity, and some Sufi sects of Islam. In Christian thought, the...

When we consider the spectrum of life, it begins at birth and ends with death. However, even while living this temporal and death-bound...

Try to wrap your mind around this thought: The God who created the universe loves you personally! He loves you — not just people in...

Fear of difference creates a very narrow, exclusionary, and stunted religion and life, the very antithesis of what God invites us into....

The mystics have always emphasized a life anchored in God. Relationships with God as actual, inner, transcendent experiences. We all can...

"We are saved by hope, and so too are we made happy by hope." - St. Augustine This global pandemic can be regarded as a test of our faith...

All over the world, we are experiencing dreadful difficulty, uncertainty, and disruption to our lives. Reality is being uncovered—...

Relationships are the fundamental network of our lives. The fibers connect us to family, intimates, partners, friends, as well as...

God’s image within each of us is fundamental and constant. Our life-calling, our vocation is our unique expression of that image. Our...

We cannot produce devotion, it is the work of grace. But we need to desire it and create the conditions that can allow it to happen....

Love is extension and its purpose is to give of itself. God extends and His desire is to keep giving of Himself. God's illuminating light...

Humility is not something we bring to God nor is it something God gives to us. It is the realization that we are nothing. It is the...

Much of what we are to obtain, learn and experience from healthy relationships is a reflection of the kind of connection God wants to...

Our image of God creates us. There is an absolute connection between how we see God and how we see ourselves and everything else; our...

Most believe that religion is about maintaining order and control and God as the supreme order keeper. By idealizing power and being at...

There are times when words fail and we don’t know how or what to pray, when emotions are tender and raw. Moments when it’s all just too...

The world that the blind see is imagined. The spiritually blind use judgment to infer what could otherwise be seen by the vision of the...

To follow Jesus is not to remain unmoving, is not to have a theology that is secure and comfortable, and continue living lives that are...

We see and understand a painting from a distance, but as we come closer, or look at it from a different angle, we notice something we...