Many of us try to balance two key sides of ourselves: a spiritual side and an analytical side. Our spiritual side seeks the sacred—something timeless or ultimately important or beautiful to us. For ...

Among the big questions authors tackle this season are what it means to lead a good life, where to put one’s faith in uncertain times, and how to mend the church’s broken places. Miroslav Volf and ...

Oblate Father Ronald Rolheiser delivers the keynote address during the opening of the National Catholic Educational Association's annual convention in Boston April 11, 2012. Credit: CNS photo/Gregory ...

(RNS) — The popularity of spiritual direction can be attributed in part to its emphasis on facilitating instead of advice-giving and theology-spewing. (RNS) — Sam Herrmann grew up homeschooled in an ...

As a young man, I was privileged to be an eyewitness to the rise of the Christian spiritual formation movement. It began, in its modern form, in 1978, when Richard Foster wrote what has become the ...

Psychology professor Hall (Psychology in the Spirit) argues for seeking spiritual transformation through relationships in this ambitious if overly complicated work. Hall begins by examining the ...

In September the Pew Research Center modeled four potential futures for American religion, depending on different rates of conversion to and disaffiliation from the nation’s faiths. In three of the ...

At this time in the year when we hear the hymn People, Look East, I suggest that we look to the East for thoughtful and spiritually impactful reads for now and into the new year. First, I have to ...