Nursing homes are the frontlines of the pandemic. Read one chaplain's reflections on healing at a distance drawing on Christian and Buddhist practices.

A Lutheran pastor describes how certain kinds of conversations can be considered a spiritual practice, particularly when done across religious traditions.

Patrick Reyes encourages us "to do ministry as my grandma did: in the midst of deep suffering and pain, [show] an abundance of love and healing."

Pastor Elizabeth Mae Magill believes that highly effective food ministries create deep, reciprocal relationships.

For 70 years, religion in Russia was suppressed. But the sites—the art, the architecture—still exist. People must be reintroduced to the Christian context.

In this interview, Cara Wall discusses her 2019 novel The Dearly Beloved, which centers on two pastors and their wives.

In our February edition of Book Notes, we highlight recently published books written by authors affiliated with the Collegeville Institute.

In Dear Joan, Jessie Bazan and nine other millennial women wrestle with their callings to leadership in the Catholic church.

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew reviews Cameron Dezen Hammon's debut spiritual memoir This is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession.

the birds are louder now / we say / but no / (that’s so obverse of us)

Spring arrives late in Minnesota, and so we celebrate with poet and writer Christine Valters Paintner the blessed arrival of the "Spring Ephemerals."

In Larry Gavin's poem "The Face of Rock," he invites us to consider "The translation / of lightning into a tongue anyone can understand."