In a new book of meditations on God and the Earth, feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson explores an image of God as lover of creation and concludes that, yes, you will see your pet in heaven.

User’s Guide to Sunday, May 9Sunday, May 9, is the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Mass Readings: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Psalm 98:1-4; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17. Welcome to the Sixth Sunday of ...

God is faithful to His promise: “I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh” (Joel 2:28). The Holy Spirit will be poured out “on all flesh” referring to all believers.

Yet in that juncture, we nonetheless move on from understandings of God as remote and distant. Some might say the biblical arc chronicles changes in God’s relations with humanity, and that the arc ...

Every breath, every gust of wind, every act of the Spirit—in all of these may the ruach of God remind us to do what the final psalm commands (150:6): Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!