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Meet Dorothee Soelle

Dorothee Soelle was a teenager in Germany when the Holocaust shattered her image of God.

Dec 4, 20253 min read

Can suffering become love?

How do we keep our hearts open when the world is breaking? Few saints wrestled with that question more deeply than Edith Stein.

Oct 29, 20253 min read

When Matter Becomes Prayer

I had a powerful experience while sitting on the wooden floor of my apartment on a Saturday morning, scribbling away in my prayer journal. As the pages curled with ink under my hand, I had a sudden realization.

Oct 2, 20255 min read

Teilhard de Chardin offering the Mass on the World.

The Mass on the World | Teilhard de Chardin

While on a scientific expedition through the steppes of China, Teilhard de Chardin found himself without bread and wine to celebrate the Eucharist. So he used the elements God had given him: the earth itself became his altar; the earth’s land, labor, loss, and longings, his bread and wine. Read the full text of Teilhard's Mass on the World.

MYSTICS

Oct 2, 202522 min read

Bend the World Toward Healing

I remember the first time I set foot in Muir Woods, a stunning 500-acre natural reserve just north of San Francisco. Soft earth cushioned my steps, and enormous old-growth coast redwoods towered over my head, most of them at least 500 years old. It was impossible to crane my head far back enough to see their highest branches. There is a kind of sacred hush that overcomes you in a place like that. It was that sacred hush to which naturalist and conservationist John Muir dedi

Sep 2, 20254 min read

Love Is Still a Strategy

What if tenderness is the most radical act we have left?

MYSTICS

Jul 7, 20253 min read

The Spirituality of Carl Jung

Carl Jung was a depth psychologist, yes. But he was also a mystic—one who believed that the psyche was not merely a structure to analyze, but a living reality filled with meaning.

Jun 4, 20255 min read

Pope Leo XIII & the Meaning Behind the Name

The new American pope chose the name Leo XIV—declaring a continuation of Pope Leo XIII's legacy in Rerum Novarum | To choose the name Leo is to take a stand. Leo XIII was the first pope to really engage with modernity—and the first to lay the foundation for the Church’s social teaching that stands as a bulwark against injustice everywhere.

May 8, 20255 min read