Educated at Harvard and Yale in the liberal reformed traditions of Christianity as represented by Paul Tillich and H. Richard Niebuhr, King notes that his formal education familiarized him neither ...

I met a delightful person last week who described herself as both a "Stay-at-home Mum" (with a husband and three daughters) and a "Zen Christian". What a fine juxtaposition of religions! Zen is, of ...

Monk, poet, activist, mystic, celebrated author, bridge between East and West—Thomas Merton was all of these, and he had a signal influence on the culture of mid-20th-century America. This year marks ...

Pope Francis invoked four Americans in his historic speech to Congress on Thursday. Two are instantly recognizable: Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The others – Dorothy Day and ...

The intersection of Christianity with Zen Buddhism receives an exciting renewal in this authoritative second edition of Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit by Robert E. Kennedy, Jesuit priest and Zen master.