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 ...

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— 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. — ...

For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page, which includes Pershey's current Living by the Word column as well as past magazine and blog content. For ...

Our faith is really strange, isn’t it? When we sit down and actually talk it out, try to explain it to someone: This is who I think God is. This is what a life with God looks like. This is what I ...

The creation account described in the Book of Genesis features God “breathing life” into human beings (Genesis 2:7). The word for “breath” in the Old Testament (Hebrew) and the New Testament (Greek) ...

As we enter a new year, the third calendar year in the Jewish calendar of the pandemic, I am haunted by the spiritual implications of COVID’s impact on our lives. With its assault on life’s breath, ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – A living history pageant filled the platform of the Oakwood University Seventh-day Adventist Church Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. The directors and speakers for 38 years of the "Breath ...

My interest in Christian truths started in college, when I took seriously the challenge of a theologian who adapted Socrates’ famous line to say that an unexamined faith is not worth believing. That ...