6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (668+ words) We can’t control what happens to us – only how we react to it. And when we help others we are reminded that we are more than our suffering Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (670+ words) Girls Gone Bible is on tour in the US, touting a regressive ideal of femininity through discussions of abstinence and mental health struggles At first glance, the crowd gathering outside a music venue in Red Bank, New Jersey, could have…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (914+ words) After decades of declining religious affiliation, churches in southern California have seen an increase among gen Z Alicia Martinez pulls on an oversized, chocolate-brown leather jacket – an incongruous choice for the July heat in Los Angeles. Later that day, she…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1004+ words) The work is less about fighting what we feel, and more about meeting desire with curiosity, integrity and wisdom When I was a kid, I had a designated “junk food drawer”. I remember a particular kind of joy in choosing…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (309+ words) My friend Stephen Pedley, who has died aged 85, was bishop of Lancaster from 1998 until 2005. A true son of the church, he was the quintessential Catholic – English not Roman – immersed in the worship, history and culture of the Church of England…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (592+ words) An enormous statue of the Virgin Mary that is believed to be Europe’s tallest was inaugurated on Saturday in a small Polish village, in the presence of the anti-communist leader Lech Wałęsa. Hundreds of people took part in the consecration…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (372+ words) Instead of ‘being’ or ‘doing’ the wrong thing, a more useful understanding of sin may be of ‘missing the mark’ – a sense of not quite right-ness Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be…...