A religion scholar’s assumptions about historical progress distort the legacy of a central Christian doctrine. Few ideas have changed the world as profoundly as the doctrine that all human beings who ...

Ralph Ellison’s novel depicts the quest for personal dignity in a society determined to deny it. “I am a man.” On February 12, 1968, over two hundred Black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, ...

Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference speaks during the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday commemorative service at the Ebenezer Baptist ...

A long white beard. A golden throne among clouds. A round and rosy face. Until I started college (yes, college) this was how I imagined God. Consciously or not, my version of God had the same ...

I am on retreat in a beautiful and sacred place, Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center in Hiawatha, Iowa. My weekend has been filled with the song of birds, the sweet smell of prairie grasses ...

Pope Francis blesses a woman as he greets people who have disabilities following Mass in St. Peter’s Square on June 17, 2013. (CNS/Paul Haring) The recently released Vatican document “Dignitas ...

The Lebanese philosopher Charles Malik and the French jurist René Cassin had little in common. When they met, in 1947, Malik was a devout Orthodox Christian, Lebanon’s first ambassador to the U.S. and ...

In Buffalo, New York, ten people created in the image of God, all of them Black, were killed last month in a racially motivated attack. “Beloved is the human for the human was created in the Image of ...