I flunked algebra four times during high school and college. And my one attempt at geometry resulted in a grade of 0.7 on a grading scale of 1 to 9. I enjoy thinking about patterns and the ...

I read about a 90-year-old man who studied Hebrew because he wanted “to greet God in his native language.” What is the language of God? That subject came up as a group of us was driving to a bilingual ...

The Day of Pentecost is one of my favorite days in the church year. In Western Christianity, it is a special feast day in the Christian Church, coinciding with the Jewish Shavuot (or Feast of Weeks).

“This is about expanding the language of God so every person can see and understand they are made in the image of God.” Indeed, many comments from the convention floor stemmed from concerns other than ...

The terms for God, in the poetic language of the prayers written for centuries, have almost always been male: Father. King. Lord. And in the Episcopal Church, the language of prayer matters. The Book ...

“There is one God who revealed Himself through Jesus Christ His Son, who is His Word which came forth from silence.” — St. Ignatius of Antioch, disciple of the Apostle John, Letter to the Magnesians, ...

What’s Gustave Moreau doing hanging out with John Currin, Wade Guyton, and Damien Hirst? Moreau, the most inventive old-school artist of nineteenth-century French painting, would likely be baffled by ...

Mendo: How an Unlikely Group of Rebels Turned Cannabis into California’s Cash Crop Even as “we are staring down the end of all things,” there is still inspiration to be found in “ancient texts,” ...

When a woman in a small village in southern Mexico heard verses from the New Testament in her indigenous language for the first time, she turned to the pastor and asked in amazement, “Does God ...

“What language shall I borrow to thank you, dearest Friend, for this, your dying sorrow, your mercy without end? Lord, make me yours forever, a loyal servant true, and let me never, never outlive my ...