Sara Marks
Daniel Imwalle
February 23, 2024
Sara’s role as executive director of the Franciscan Federation has her connecting Franciscans and Franciscan organizations of all stripes across the country and beyond.
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Blessed Are the Meek
Bruce Epperly
February 20, 2024
The meek are blessed precisely because they recognize their dependence on the generosity of God and creation.
Rejoice in Humanity
Bruce Epperly
February 19, 2024
Saints rejoice in their common humanity, knowing that God’s word becomes flesh in fallible and ambivalent persons like ourselves.
Love and Triumph
Bruce Epperly
February 17, 2024
As Bonaventure writes, God is “totally submerged in the waters from the sole of the foot to the top of the head…. [God] appeared to you as your beloved cut through with wound upon wound in order to heal you.”
Heaven and Earth
Bruce Epperly
February 16, 2024
The first Franciscans believed that God was in the world, actively shaping human experience, and inspiring birds’ songs and wolves’ howls.
An Alternative Vision of God
Bruce Epperly
February 15, 2024
If Christian faith is to be meaningful to twenty-first-century individuals and play a positive role in healing the earth and its peoples, Christians must choose the way of loving relatedness.
Senate approves bill with uncertain future in House as Ukraine hangs in the balance
OSV News
February 14, 2024
The Senate passed an approximately $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, following months of a stalemate amid growing divisions within the Republican Party.
God’s Tears
Bruce Epperly
February 7, 2024
God feels the pain of an injured baby bird, fallen out of its nest, and the loneliness of a pet mourning the death of its human companion.
Embrace the Beatitudes
Bruce Epperly
February 6, 2024
At the heart of Francis’s and Clare’s biblical vision was the Sermon on the Mount, and most especially the Beatitudes.
Hidden in Christ
Stephen Copeland
January 27, 2024
Colossians 3:3 suggests that when we die to ourselves and set our minds on things above, our lives become “hidden with Christ in God.”