Using the heart as a powerful representation of the embodied core of human existence has biblical, and even pre-Christian ...

Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought, “I’ll never get my eating right?” Maybe the scale hasn’t moved. Maybe you ...

As a lay Catholic myself, I consider my secular writing, speaking, and teaching to be the principal way that I share my faith ...

I am drawn to wild places, are you? Such places help me feel alive, small and aware of a loving creative God who I may not have been noticing. To help me pay attention, I often try to bring along some ...

The other night, my friend Rick and I were talking about how many teachers had influenced our lives. He had five. I had four. My first great one was my mother. She had learned English at age 11, fresh ...

When God instructed the Israelites on his most important commands, he said this: ...

The core principle in the rule of St. Augustine is to love God with your whole heart, your whole mind and soul and to love your neighbor as yourself. And I think that's simply what he was doing in ...

Jesus taught two great commandments: Love God with your whole heart, your whole mind, your whole soul and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. He did not abolish the Ten Commandments.

The good and faithful folks at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco raised the child of God within ... the whole body and reminded me that what looks like two (mind versus body or soul versus body ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday continued his catechesis on “Jesus Christ Our Hope,” saying love is ... that every soul that believes and hopes conceives and begets the Word of God,” he said.

We get to remember our power, our love, our connection here ... "That's our conversation with God … when you are inside of your mind in this place and you can communicate." ...

The soul is the greatest value of a human being. In fact, Jesus says, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole ... of God within the soul as the source of life and love.