I’ve been dazzled these last few days by How God Becomes Real: Kindling The Presence Of Invisible Others, the new book by Stanford anthropologist T.M. Luhrmann. You should know up front that Luhrmann ...
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. —Hebrews 11:1 Now that I have a baby again, I am especially fond of taking walks outside with my boys. I buckle the ...
In a world filled with so many voices, it can sometimes feel like a challenge to get through to your children as a parent. How do we make the truth of Jesus real in a world of busyness and distraction ...
Most people who profess belief in God’s existence do not pray for groceries to appear in their refrigerator rather than going shopping themselves. Why not? And what accounts for the difference between ...
I’m still waiting for pathology results from my biopsy last week. In the meantime, I want to address an issue raised by one of the commenters to my last post. This individual wrote that they wanted to ...
I want to congratulate Deacon Greg Kandra. He has managed to make the devil mad at him. How do I know this? Some of the devil’s hate mail to the Deacon has been landing in my box here on Public ...
To ask if God is real is like asking if the wind is real. It absolutely is real, even though you can’t fully understand it. God is much the same way. The truth is, God has been proven to be ...
Never in my non-Catholic life did I believe that I would have a favorite pope, but Pope Francis has definitely earned that title. At a plenary meeting at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Monday, ...
If you’re going to reject God, at least reject him for the right reasons. Let me tell you a story about a fictional letter Pope John Paul I wrote to G.K. Chesterton. Here’s what the Pope wrote: What ...
Excerpted from "A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet" For most of my life, a God that was “real” seemed a contradiction in terms. Every idea of God I had ever ...
An Arizona woman whose heart stopped beating for 27 minutes claims she has seen God face-to-face in heaven, and it was He who orchestrated her “medically documented miracle,” bringing her back to life ...