When you’re flying above a dense and diverse environment like Manhattan, there is little time to reflect on what you are seeing below. Only in retrospect can you savor moments and see what you had been capturing with instinct. Thus it is with this photograph, where you can see people looking like so many black ants crowded around the square fountains that were once the footprint of the World Trade Center.
Thursday, many folks in NYC shared photos of a rainbow that appeared over the island of Manhattan. At one point the rainbow seemed to end directly over the new World Trade Center.
Planting Peace is headquartered in the Equality House, painted the colors of the GLBT Pride Flag, across the street from Westboro Baptist church in Topeka KS. This week as a part of their advocacy for GLBTQ rights, Planting Peace has traveled to Morehead KY to leave a message for the Rowan County clerk, Kim Davis.
How to tell one of God’s prophets from mere fortunetellers who want to tell us what the future is going to be? Listen. Are they telling us what we want to hear or something we don’t?
Pope Francis will canonize Junipero Serra on September 23 in Washington, DC. The 18th-century Spanish Franciscan missionary was either a missionary who cared for the natives who converted or a conquerer who forced people to abandon their beliefs and way of life.
Vice-President Joe Biden talked about faith, politics, and living through tragedy with Stephen Colbert in a refreshing switch in how religion and faith is handled in the public square.
This week’s film is the taut psychological thriller Phoenix.
Sari Rice says that the millennials who stay will change the church in fundamental ways, mainly because they don’t behave like members of the other generations.
One of the most beautiful things that happened in the days and months after these terrible events was the unity that was expressed by people of all faiths in response to events so imbued with suffering and evil.
Military officer turned priest, Christopher Hawley offer up some thoughtful words on the eve of 9/11