Summer is a season of magic. The old sticks littering the backyard are actually swords, the woods are full of dragons, and the water at the beach has the power to turn a young girl into a mermaid.

As we continue to walk through Ordinary Time, the Church draws from the Sacred Scriptures and repeatedly gives testimony to the immense love God has for each of us. Through the sacred narrative of the ...

George MacDonald’s legacy is his reminder that we are creative beings because we are made in the image of a Creator. As a novelist and a poet George MacDonald was certainly blessed with a fertile ...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14; Psalm 24:1-6; 1 John 3:1-3; Matthew 5:1-12 Today’s readings show us what distinguish the saints: imagination and habit. “We are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet ...

Weirdness seems to be the order of the day, what with all those words and pictures floating around, bouncing off who-knows-where in space. Today, after trying to open an e-mail from a cousin who has ...

In any conversation about Ignatian spirituality, the phrase “finding God in all things” crops up quickly. Although those precise words do not appear in the text of St. Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual ...

This piece is crossposted from The Best American Poetry, where poet Eve Grubin is guest blogging this week. Read Grubin’s previous post here and her poetry on The Arty Semite here. Yesterday I wrote ...

There is a plant in which the only place in the world it grows is on the coast of North and South Carolina. We saw some growing in the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston. The exotic Venus flytrap ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Few speeches are as monotonous as the average stewardess's flight announcements. When I hear, "This is Helen, your chief ...