Editor’s note: This article, a response to “The crisis in Catholic theology” by Grant Kaplan, is part of The Conversation, a new initiative of America Media offering diverse perspectives on important ...

Classicist Kuin (Lucian’s Laughing Gods) offers a enthralling intellectual history of Diogenes, the founder of Cynicism—a word derived from the Greek for “dog,” the moniker Continue reading » One Bad ...

Womanist theology today has come a mighty long way from its earliest beginnings in response to Alice Walker's lifting up of the term "womanist." It began with Black women and women of color exploring ...

[Editor’s Note: Clare McGrath-Merkle, OCDS, DPhil, is a philosopher of religion and author of the 2018 book, Bérulle’s Spiritual Theology of Priesthood: A Study in Speculative Mysticism and Applied ...

In I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation (Eerdmans), Chanequa Walker-Barnes offers a salient Christian vision for racial reconciliation. This vision is notable ...

Last year's conference of the Theology of the Body Institute in the US was an unexpected success, attracting more than 70,000 online registrants. "There was a perfect storm last year with COVID and ...

Author and lecturer Christopher West challenged his Lancaster audience with this question Tuesday evening: “How many of you would say that, in your Christian upbringing, there was an open, honest, ...

(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 it happens, most scientists these days, especially physicists looking at the very small and the very big, acknowledge that they are implicated in their own research, a part of the system they study ...

The Christian life is relentlessly personal. Although I had been a pastor for a couple of years, I had little interest in theology. It was worse than that. My experience of theology was contaminated ...

In the previous article, we left off with the a description of some of the various branches of theology that one could study. And, as I mentioned, all of this can seem so refined and so obscure. We ...

At important moments in our lives, we set aside time to give thanks to God for the joys of milestones, help received in reaching goals, and God's promised strength for the challenges ahead. We do this ...