In the foreword to Just War as Christian Discipleship, Lieutenant Colonel Scott A. Sterling, an army chaplain, recounts a conversation he had with a female officer in Iraq who was eager to make moral ...

Perversely, high hopes can lead to inaction. Grandiose dreams can bog us down. As P. J. O’Rourke once put it, everyone wants to save the world but no one wants to do the dishes. The Year of Small ...

In his decades of teaching geology at Calvin University, Ralph Stearley noticed that many people assume that there is some kind of deep conflict between faith and science, an attitude that plays out ...

As reflected in our Scripture readings at Mass this Sunday, following Jesus Christ is not an easy task. It demands a total death to self and a desire to live only for him and his teachings. Many ...

US Christians are growing in their faith, but many do it on their own, according to LifeWay Research. Over the past decade, more believers are heeding the scriptural call to “grow in the grace and ...

Despite the rising costs, wholehearted Christian discipleship brings immeasurable blessings, said Reid Neilson, assistant academic vice president for religious scholarly publications, during his ...

Today’s readings highlight the benefits of having faith in God. The readings also reveal the risks and requirements that come with discipleship. In the first reading, a “woman of influence” shows ...

LANSING, Mich. — A year-long initiative by a Michigan bishop to inspire greater Christian discipleship among clergy and laypeople has now attracted more than 11,000 weekly subscribers. “I’m delighted, ...

Advent is a time for renewal, a time of new beginnings. It is, after all, the start of a new liturgical year, which brings with it an opportunity for personal assessment and even goal-setting akin to ...

You can pay extra these days to buy jeans with ready-made holes that make them look old. You can buy spray-on mud so that your 4×4 looks as if it’s been off-road (yes, I’m serious). But there are no ...

who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, ‘Come here immediately and take your place at table’? Would he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat. Put on your ...