| Down in the canyon, we'd placed a two-foot statue of the Blessed Mother inside a stone grotto. The year before my brother James, who is a priest, had come to bless it, sprinkling holy water on the grotto and the oak beside it. Everywhere that holy water had landed was untouched. Not even a smudge of smoke.
BLOG POSTS  | Miguel De La Torre, Ph.D.: My Neighbor's Faith: The Value of a Peso
When those who have so little do their faith by providing for those who have even less; those of us privileged by class should be profoundly humbled. It is the privileged who see the oppressed and do nothing that are the ones that do not know God. |  | Kyle Anderson: Amendment 1 Through an Interfaith Lens
While people are not going to come to agreement over contentious issues, I believe there is still room for meaningful conversation to foster mutual understanding. |  | Christian Piatt: The Boy With a Broken Heart Is Born
I wrote a story a while back about a family in our church back in Pueblo whose baby was due just after we left town. There was a good chance he'd need surgery in utero or immediately after being born. |  | Christopher Lane: Faith According to the Bible(s)
The devout understandably want to view their faith as inevitable -- as existing beyond chance, contingency and debate. Close examination of key passages in the Bible underscores, by contrast, that the book they worship is far from reliable. |  | Nancy Fuchs Kreimer: Trouble Praying
The year was 1980. I was the guest of a graduate student at Heidelberg University. My stay in his home was part of a month-long trip through Germany with Jews and Christians engaged in "post-Holocaust interfaith dialogue." | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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