I was away on a retreat recently when the mirror surprised me. Normally, I can hardly bear to see my own face in the mornings, so it was only by chance that I happened to glance into the mirror as I ...

Beauty is one of those “contested” words. For many in the art world, it is a bad word, implying one group of people knows better than another. For American Christians, it hasn’t fared much better. It ...

In today’s cultural climate, where truth is often subjective, and goodness is increasingly questioned, beauty remains a universal language that transcends barriers. Conservative Jewish and Christian ...

In the midst of trying to do the right thing, it’s easy to forget to do it in the right way. Outside a US congressman’s office, Christians holding homemade protest signs and clergy dressed in their ...

That’s the hashtag I saw in an Instagram post by Gretchen Rubin, a New York Times best-selling author of books on happiness and habits. It caught my eye because at my annual physical, my doctor ...

We prove God’s existence by worshiping him and not by advancing so-called proofs. We have here the liturgical and iconographic argument for the existence of God. We arrive at a solid belief in the ...

Calvin says somewhere that each of us is an actor on a stage and God is the audience. That metaphor has always interested me, because it makes us artists of our behavior, and the reaction of God to us ...

In 2002, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, gave a speech about beauty and God. Excerpts: Being struck and overcome by the beauty of Christ is a more real, more profound knowledge ...

When it seems the whole world suffers, animals are still offering praise. There’s no shortage of ugliness in our world. A quick scan of today’s environmental headlines reveals any number of horrors: ...