The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common December sight, artfully arranged on church lawns or entryways across ...

Not until the Christmas they were in kindergarten and second grade. With the December scholastic film festival concluded, my ...

Lesley Finn is an award-winning writer and visual artist. She teaches at Yale University and the Center for Fiction in ...

The origin story of my pacifism will be familiar to many Americans my age. I was 23 years old on September 11, 2001. I had grown up firmly middle-class and had lived, up to that point, in relatively ...

“How can you be half a religion?” The question comes to Sofia Samatar in a way that characterizes her memoir of a pilgrimage across Uzbekistan in search of a lost colony of Mennonites: through several ...

I heard it for the first time while running on a treadmill, and I rewound and replayed it until I had it memorized. “I’ve listened to many a Marxist accuse the churches of having a vested interest in ...

My fondest memories of my childhood in Korea were when I would visit my grandmother’s house. There, dropped like a patch of vibrant green earth in moldy concrete, was the madang—the outdoor courtyard ...

Occasionally one of my children will ask me, “Am I your favorite child?” This both elicits a laugh I don’t think they were ...

Ispend every friday morning in prison. I’m not incarcerated, but at 8 a.m. each Friday I flash my ID, sign in at the guard post outside East Moline Correctional Center, pass through the fence topped ...

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, is nowhere near Lemon Tree Mound.So, it was something of a surprise a ...

Catholic Hollywood director D.J. Caruso set out to tell the story of Mary as seen through her own eyes, in a new film ...

Still, the menagerie around the manger reflects the Franciscan vision—there is a donkey and ox, as in Greccio, along with a ...