Director Terrence Malick’s new movie is a meditation on traditional Christian questions about evil, suffering, grace, and beauty, says Calvin College professor of English Roy Anker.

From generation to generation, adults and children have reenacted the story of the birth of Jesus to convey the message of Christmas.

A Christmas pageant, says Calvin College professor of music and worship John Witvliet, is one of the best places in modern culture to witness "a genuine sense of mystery and even solemnity."

“Have we healed? Yes, healed with a hole. It’s never a complete healing, but at least there a willingness to write a new chapter of life,” says Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, a New York Fire Department chaplain.

A decade after 9/11, we talk again with a minister and a rabbi who revisit the conversation they had in September 2001 and who offer some theological thoughts about violence, justice, revenge, forgiveness, evil, and hope.

During World War II, conductor Rafael Schaechter led Jewish musicians in performances of Verdi's Requiem before Nazi audiences at the Terezin concentration camp and said, "We can sing to them what we cannot say to them."

Millions of women in the developing world suffer from obstetric fistulas and are outcasts in their societies, but a medical missionary from Australia has spent much of her life working to eradicate the condition.

An acclaimed new movie shows that a monastery is "at once a refuge and a very integral part of the world," says Jesuit priest James Martin, and that "the life of faith is not without doubt."

The much-praised French film "Of Gods and Men" dramatizes the essence of universal Christian love, according to the author of the book on which the movie is based.

The Catholic peace movement Pax Christi USA met outside the White House for prayers of repentance for war.