This story of Jesus’ Heaven-Earth-Heaven round-trip is too momentous to be reserved for only one time per year at Easter. It should be held in our hearts every day, saturating our souls, and guiding ...

Editor's note: As part of our commitment to foster civil conversations in Viewpoints, we're inviting faith leaders to submit edited versions of their homilies that transcend religion, with messages ...

I’ve attended enough funerals to have been exposed to scores of sappy, revisionist, post-mortem biographies, tearfully shared by relatives, trying their best to place “Uncle Harry” in Heaven, even if ...

Tomorrow is The Festival of Ascension and it sits between the two festivals of Easter and Pentecost. Easter is when we celebrate the resurrected Jesus, and Pentecost is when we celebrate God’s Spirit ...

Find today’s readings here. Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in ...

Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle As the world’s ...

The theme of connecting heaven and earth appears often in the Bible. In today’s passage from Revelations, creation is complete when the bride, the wife of the Lamb, descends from heaven as the holy ...