This Lent, Fr. Emmet Farrell wants you to think about climate change. Farrell, director of creation care ministry for the Diocese of San Diego, developed a series of daily reflections for the 40-day ...

Every now and then, an interested person will ask me how I choose a topic for each of my columns. Much of the time, I feel that the topics are chosen for me; not by an editor, but by the issues ...

With a steaming hot cup of coffee in hand, I sit on my back deck and enjoy the morning. The rising sun brightens through the trees. Songbirds, hidden in the canopy of the trees, serenade with piercing ...

As I explain in the book, intellectual wellness calls for a renewal of the mind. The mind is the first domain addressed in ...

Last week my 11-year-old daughter asked me while we were riding together in the car when the voting for the next President was. When I told her the voting wasn’t until November, she gasped and looked ...

Jamir Couch is a Long Island native and an attorney who owns a consulting firm. She says long-term change is what's needed as society looks to fix issues of diversity and inclusivity. "I say that we ...

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Before I became a priest, I was a professor of oceanography. One of the things I learned was that oceanographers couldn't just study squid or fish in isolation. We had to study interconnected systems.

A lot of people returned to work today with slimmer bank balances and slightly bulkier bodies. It’s tradition. Those things stay the same, but much else has changed from holidays past. My e-mail ...