How many people are alive? Not just walking around, talking, eating and going to work. Alive! Life is more than motion. Life is more than a body. God speaks things into being, a combined action of His ...

— 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. — ...

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) ...

"Let everything that has breath praise the Lord," the author writes in Psalm 150, verse 6. Over the past month, I’ve been thinking about breathing with more regularity. My husband, Justin, got me a ...

The body of Saint John Mary Vianney, entombed above the main altar in the Basilica at Ars, France. The face is covered with a wax mask. (Credit: Wikimedia.) Listen The spiritual life is enriched by ...

(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 ...

Still Small Voice is a collection of 18 interviews with rabbis tackling 18 questions about God, published during the month of Elul, a time of Jewish reflection and accountability. Click here to read ...