In 'Thoreau’s God,' Richard Higgins takes the reader on a fascinating journey through Thoreau’s extensive work, looking at the ways the philosopher thought about the divine and the human relation to the divine.

Nothing in my life has been as freeing as the realization that not everyone is going to love, like or approve of me.

We need to pray for the person whose real identity and full story we do not know. Because that is everyone.

Drama can teach us active listening and public speaking, yes; but on a deeper level, it can shape our spiritual disposition.

In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” an ordinary electrician has a transcendent encounter—with U.F.O.s, not God.

After four decades in education, both secular and Catholic, I have witnessed teaching models come and go. The moment before us, however, is not a passing phase; it is a threshold.