For much of the Christian church, last Sunday was Ascension Sunday. It is a bittersweet day. The party is over. No way to be sure if they even knew it was coming, since he foretold his death and his ...

It is one of those sayings that makes Jesus Jesus: “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.” Every parent and kindergarten teacher throws back ...

I knew that Rowan Williams, once the Archbishop of Canterbury, knew a lot about Eastern Christian practice, but I did not know that he begins his day with the Jesus Prayer. More: Readers of Salinger’s ...

Christian Meditation with Benedictine monk, Dom Laurence Freeman who will be visiting Sydney during the week of World Youth Day This meditation continues a longer and more in depth treatment of one ...

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! Today we will talk about the form of prayer called meditation. For a Christian, to “meditate” is to seek meaning: it implies placing oneself before the immense ...

Jesus had asked the angels to sing. In the parking lot of an Arby’s in North Platte, Neb., 4-year-old Colton Burpo told his father, Pastor Todd Burpo, that he’d visited heaven while undergoing ...