Faith Matters

Faith Matters

Faithful responses to work, family and everyday life

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In Woolf's footsteps

May 07, 2012 by Stephanie Paulsell

During spring break I made a pilgrimage. With my husband and my daughter, I traced the path Virginia Woolf took through Italy in 1908.

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Small acts of courage

Apr 25, 2012 by Thomas G. Long

A Swiss bureaucrat saved hundreds from the Nazis. Yet even when picking up a cross means picking up a rubber stamp, many desert and flee.

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Anxious in Palestine

Apr 05, 2012 by M. Craig Barnes

Palestinian parents don’t fret about drugs or drunk drivers. They worry that the Israeli soldiers will use their M-16s.

Monkish ways

Mar 29, 2012 by Stephanie Paulsell

As a graduate student, my father visited the Abbey of Gethsemani. His experiences there entered him in some permanent way.

The prodigal's brother

Mar 15, 2012 by M. Craig Barnes

Salvation requires repentance. But of what do the righteous repent?

Idol smasher

Feb 27, 2012 by Thomas G. Long

Christopher Hitchens was an unrelenting unbeliever to the end. But Ross Douthat claims that everything about Hitchens points to an embrace of life and a refusal to give in to despair.

The memory of God

Feb 07, 2012 by Carol Zaleski

We can't remember Jesus the way we can remember, say, Bonhoeffer or the lavishly photographed St. Thérèse of Lisieux.

The good sheepdog

Feb 02, 2012 by M. Craig Barnes

I am cherished, and called by the Shepherd to serve the flock. But I can save no one.