Pope Francis blesses a woman as he greets people who have disabilities following Mass in St. Peter’s Square on June 17, 2013. (CNS/Paul Haring) The recently released Vatican document “Dignitas ...

In Torah Judaism, gender is a cornerstone of God’s creation. Halacha, the Jewish legal tradition, assigns roles and ...

A couple of weeks ago, my church joined many from the Christian tradition and celebrated Trinity Sunday. Since then, I have been thinking about what we mean when we say that every person is “made in ...

LGBTQ+ people are made in the image and likeness of God and are born with an inherent dignity that must be respected. This principle is reflected in the richness of Catholic social teaching, and ...

As a pastor, I’ve wrestled with the theological implications of my child’s disability. When my nine-year-old son Benji was an infant, we were in and out of hospitals for the first few months of his ...

Few ideas have changed the world as profoundly as the doctrine that all human beings who have ever lived bear God’s likeness. In Genesis 1:27, when God creates the first people, we learn that he ...

A long white beard. A golden throne among clouds. A round and rosy face. Until I started college (yes, college) this was how I imagined God. Consciously or not, my version of God had the same ...

Elizabeth Johnson has spent her entire life — or at least her decadeslong theological career — trying to get people to think differently about God, beyond the patriarchal image of an authoritarian old ...

My preteen boys’ bodies are changing. They are both, now, taller than me — and I am not a short woman. Their feet are unusually disproportionate to the rest of their bodies, so much so that my husband ...

How do you, yourself, dear reader, see God? Have you ever tried to speak to God? Have you ever prayed to God for a special favor? Has He (or She) granted it to you? If you were to write a letter to ...