For writer and music lover Stephen Copeland, Franciscan spirituality offers the words for a kind of listening that is vital to being a human fully alive.
Faith Seeking Understanding: The ever-widening gap between Trump's self-presentation and reality has returned my attention to Merton's writings on the "true self" and the "false self."
Faith Seeking Understanding: The Franciscan story has a clear exhortation from Christ to "repair" or "rebuild" the church. What if we are meant to take that literally?
In a docudrama airing on PBS, the 13th-century meeting between St. Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik al-Kamil gets a fresh look amid our present-day tensions and dehumanization.
When we take seriously the invitation to rivers and streams, fish and fauna to praise and glorify God with us, we also face the full damage that we do when we abuse creation.
