(RNS) — In his new book, ‘Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa’s Confessor,’ Michael Battle delves into the ways Tutu’s religious formation shaped a vision that helped topple apartheid ...

An Anthropocentric-Christocentric Mystagogy. A Study of the Method and basic Horizon of Thought and Experience in the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. (University of Münster Offset, ...

Once or twice a month, Bernard McGinn receives an email from someone wanting to talk about their “special” experience. Many pose questions like, “How do I know if I’ve really had a mystical encounter ...

What are we to make of the variety of spiritual experiences? Michael Hughes was 22 years old when he had a mystical experience at a Maryland Catholic church. “It was almost as if I had wandered into ...

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A woman is walled into a small room, which is attached to the side of a church. In that room, there is not much she can do other than contemplate and pray. There are two small holes carved into the ...

Psychotherapist and former Anglican priest Vernon (The Meaning of Friendship) responds in this slipshod work to what he perceives as “the crisis” of waning interest in Christianity by re-centering ...

Desmond Tutu lived astride one of Christianity’s great failures—and one of its great successes. At the pinnacle of White disdain for South Africa’s original residents, the country’s government ...