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Pope Francis Is an Example of How to Ignore Culture Wars

One of the qualities I most admire in Pope Francis is that he seems intent on ignoring the Culture War Handbook which so dominates U.S. politics today. In Argentina, when the country was experiencing great conflict and brutality, he sided with neither the Marxism of the left nor the restorationist a...

Christian education program provides biblical knowledge for young students

Gen X Faith and Culture: A Conversation With Bill McGarvey

Religion Runs in the Family

"...the quality of the relationship between the child and the parent affects the success or lack of success in transmission. Warm, affirming parents, especially fathers, tend to be the most successful. For example, we followed a very religious father who comes from a long line of Mormon patriarchs, ...

The Hope of Youth Ministry

Kenda Creasy Dean, professor of youth, church and culture at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of many books including "Almost Christian" talks with Amy about how to think about – among other things – how young people in our culture end up believing above all that "God is nic...

Gen X Faith and Culture – with Bill McGarvey

Bill McGarvey – accomplished singer songwriter, editor of busted halo.com for six years, and presently columnist for America Magazine – writes and sings about the intersection of culture and faith from a Catholic perspective with a heart for the spiritual seeker. Get to know Bill and his...

How Divorce Affects Faith

A new paper entitled "Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith?" from the Center for Marriage and Families looks at the spiritual life of children of divorce as adults. It found that those whose parents split are less likely to feel religious or act religiously as adults than those whose parents staye...

Divorce breeds spiritual disconnect

A recent study concludes children whose parents divorce when they are young are less likely to be religious later in life. According to the study, two-thirds of young adults who grew up in a home with married parents are more religious than young adults who grew up in families with divorced parents....

Churches Should Focus on Children of 'Good Divorce,' Study Suggests

The report, titled "Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith?", is comprised of papers from family and religious studies experts who together declare "that today's grown children of divorce form a 'broken leading edge' of the trend of more Americans considering themselves 'spiritual but not religious'...

Divorce's Toll

The Marquardt/Zietlow report begins with a question: "Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith? Challenging the Churches to Confront the Impact of Family Change." The language of the report is not whiny or scolding, but, armed with statistics and ethnographic scripts and personal testimonies the docum...

Finding God in the ICU

Due to fear or denial or simple busyness, we spend most of our waking hours ignorantly oblivious to or consciously ignoring the reality of the shadow of death. As I have learned after a decade in hospice care, the shadow of death catches up with us all regardless of age, gender, race, religion or ec...

Finding God in the ICU

Due to fear or denial or simple busyness, we spend most of our waking hours ignorantly oblivious to or consciously ignoring the reality of the shadow of death. As I have learned after a decade in hospice care, the shadow of death catches up with us all regardless of age, gender, race, religion or ec...