It is near impossible to overstate the significance of Easter. It stands out as primary and unique for at least three reasons.

"It is better to give than to receive," says the Lord, as Saint Paul reports to us.

I am convinced that our most significant response to the challenges of our age will be in the most ordinary practices. I do not say the obvious but the ordinary.

The Gospel for Easter Sunday is from St. John's account of Easter morning (John 20:1–9).

For many Christians, the rise of Christianity is often treated like a miraculous, spectacular phenomenon.

My daughter and I were on a walk the other day when she sighed all of a sudden. "I really don’t like Lent," she said.

We are consistently told that bodily presence is optional and expendable.

A friend of mine was a bit put off recently by a highly credentialed Catholic layman who declared that there were only two vocations open to Catholics: marriage or some form of religious life.

Lent calls us into a season of 40 days of fasting. It's common for us to focus particularly on one edible attachment: chocolate, alcohol, dessert, etc.

In a recent viral video receiving massive online blowback, the author and historian Yuval Noah Harari says, "Human rights, just like God and heaven, are just a story that we've invented."