There are few things more intimate than a person’s breath. Love songs speak tenderly of our breaths, Listerine has made a fortune from sanitizing it, and emergency room physicians carefully monitor ...

— St. Francis of Assisi, "Canticle of the Sun" Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The creation account described in the Book of Genesis features God “breathing life” into human beings (Genesis 2:7). The word for ...

I rebut the statement that Genesis 2:7 defines the beginning of the soul and life not until a baby’s first breath (letters, Aug. 2). Babies are alive in their mother’s womb and certainly not ...

In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis introduces us to four children who find their way into a wondrous land through the back of a wardrobe closet in an uncle’s house. The children, ...

These prayers rarely appear in books about spirituality. They are too brief, too ordinary, too woven into the fragile rhythms ...

(RNS) — The normally simple, normally unconscious act of drawing breath has come to define the United States’ most pressing problems. The country has been racked by COVID-19 — a disease that often ...