Starved, taunted and abused. These have been the unimaginable experiences of Israeli hostages in Gaza. As more recently-released hostages speak publicly about what they have endured, the stories are ...

Why is it that people in this nation lack faith and fear in something greater than themselves? Why is it that rates of religious observance have dropped drastically over the last 50 years, despite the ...

Celebrated Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911-1984), referencing God, once wrote: “Who is both absent and present.” Many point out, God is: a divine mystery, beyond space and time, immanent, ingrained in ...

The war, which has killed tens of thousands, laid waste to the Gaza Strip and shredded Israel’s reputation abroad, could soon be over. We explore how people have grappled with faith over the past two ...

James Martin, S.J., addresses the 2025 assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in Atlanta on Aug. 14. Credit: LCWR Editors’ notes: James Martin, S.J., delivered the following speech ...

I sometimes find myself sinking into a pit of despair over the travesty that has become of the nightly news. Consider: U.S. government silence about the famine in Gaza, Trump's military invasion of ...

Another said, “the God of punishment does not resonate with me. I repeat: It’s not a punishment to have to save ourselves. It’s a sacred trust never seen here before. Of what we are capable of. Don’t ...

“Where is God?” someone called out. “This is where,” Weisel said in his heart. “Hanging here from this gallows …” The question, “Where is God?” is the central question posed to us by the Holocaust, by ...