David Bentley Hart’s new book is a bracing and eloquent reaffirmation. The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, by David Bentley Hart (Yale, 365 pp., $28) Despite what its title seems to ...

Over these past six or seven weeks, we have been listening to that sermon we call the Sermon on the Mount, the part of the Gospel where Jesus really sets forth his values of what he expects of his ...

ACCORDING TO a semi-established consensus among the intellectual elite in the West, there is no such person as God or any other supernatural being. Life on our planet arose by way of ill-understood ...

This is American artist John Singleton Copley’s depiction of Jesus Christ ascending to Heaven after his resurrection as his apostles look on. Copley lived from 1738-1815. (Courtesy Photo) A lot of ...

When we recite the Creed each Sunday and say, “I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church,” most of us don’t imagine that it has much to do with our everyday lives. Stop! Every aspect of ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Saturday that Christmas had been "taken hostage" by dazzling materialism that puts God in the shadows and blinds many to the needs of the hungry, the ...

A reader asked me to expand on the notion of spiritual materialism. Spiritual materialism is a phrase originally coined by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche that he used to describe the grasping after material ...

Ancient civilizations built monumental tombs, arenas, temples, and palaces. Later, Western Civilization focused their efforts on ever more complex castles and soaring cathedrals. What do these ...

A Christian cleric, the Bishop of Akure Diocese Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Reverend SImeon Borokini, has asked the members of the dreaded Boko Haram to first unmask themselves before ...