27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)

The Jesuit scientist questioned whether humans are descended from Adam. It got him exiled.

In Genesis, God separates the dry land from the sea. But God also makes marshes, estuaries, and coral reefs.

God’s response to Job is cold comfort when you have terminal cancer.

I mostly agree with Jeffrey Weiss about prayer. I think St. Paul would too.

Like Dmitri Karamazov, Robert Mapplethorpe knows that the beautiful is a battleground—and he's happy to play on the devil's side.

Did Jesus mean that all the things we mean by accomplishment, and maturity, and reason, and progress, are actually small niggling things that we must finally shuck and lay aside, in order to again be like children, spiritually open and emotionally naked and constantly liable to giggling?

When we are overwhelmed by our daily struggles, when we get weary because of the dehumanization that results from hatred and greed, Proverbs 8 and Psalm 8 remind us how God conceives of us as human beings crowned with glory and honor.

In John's prologue, the incarnate Word is the God of creative address.

Last month, both the scientifically minded and the scientifically challenged paused to contemplate the far reaches of the cosmos.

Scripture doesn't just shape the life of the community of faith. It also has a powerful effect on the lives of those who maintain distance from traditional religion, even those who explicitly deny religious faith.

The psalmist is not alone in claiming that humans are only “a little lower than God.” Can it be any wonder, then, that our faith leaves a great deal of room to disagree about our power in creation?

Karl Giberson offers a cultural history of the Bible's first human. It's an intriguing and unsettling story.

A recent Templeton Foundation program sought to cultivate local conversation on science and faith. We asked some pastors to describe their experience.

My Presbyterian granddaughter hasn’t heard about 500 years of conflict over “the real presence.” At her cousins' Catholic church, she washed down the wafer with a large gulp from the cup—and then another.

At first, Mandy was hesitant to come to the children's moment. Before long, some people thought she had become too comfortable in worship.