(RNS) — On Election Days, I’m reminded of the days I sat crisscross applesauce on the floor in Sunday school as our elderly and beloved teacher, “Brother Wilson,” led us in a song about God’s ...

The Trinity — the Life of God himself — is a mystery, as no doubt many a homily today will declare. That’s true: we can and never will penetrate that reality, even if our hope is fulfilled, we are ...

At the inauguration of each new year, I deliver a sermon addressing some of our potential concerns. As a testimony to the eternal relevance of the Scriptures, I have found how the theology that works ...

AMAZON OF THE DESERT—Gen. P. N. Krassnoff—Duffield ($2.50). The Throne of God is a vast mountain of the Tien Shans in Central Asia where Russia gnaws into China. There on the border Ivan Pavlovitch ...

GRINDELWALD, SWITZERLAND » It was the first time since moving to warmer climates a third of a century ago that this "native" New Yorker had braved wintertime. For a moment, I deluded myself into ...