The reassurance and familiarity of routines foster the growth of trust and love.

The truth about God’s mercy is this: It is a divine gift, not a human attainment.

When I was growing up, the impending arrival of Lent brought on great anxiety over what to give up — soda? chocolate? or most drastically, all sweets?

A summit hosted by The Leadership Roundtable found concrete ways to address the church’s twin crises: a crisis of abuse and a crisis of leadership failures and cover-up.

When it comes to moral and spiritual choices, there are no inconsequential decisions.

If you picture a dark-winged figure tempting Jesus in the desert, you reduce the real power of evil. Why? Because you have removed the devil’s greatest advantage: the darkness of confusion.