We can’t get enough Harry Potter. Since J.K. Rowling released The Sorcerer’s Stone in 1997, we’ve become obsessed with the wizarding world through books, movies, theater, and theme parks. It’s hard to ...

INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — The chance to discuss 'Harry Potter' from a spiritual standpoint is what brought hundreds of fans to a live taping of 'Harry Potter and the Sacred Text' last week in a sold-out ...

Daniel A. Madigan, S.J. An Associate Theology Professor discusses the broad possibilities created by engaging sacred texts. There are few things that academics like better than texts, particularly ...

In a Nation essay this year about the wave of successful books vaunting atheism, critic Daniel Lazare wrote the following: For a long time, religion had been doing quite nicely as a kind of minor ...

It's time now for another conversation about the different ways we find meaning in the world with our colleague Rachel Martin. It's part of her series called Enlighten Me. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL ...

It was my mom's birthday the other day. She died 14 years ago of cancer. She would have been 74 years old. Every year I scan my bookshelves for her copy of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" written by ...