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. — ...

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) ...

These prayers rarely appear in books about spirituality. They are too brief, too ordinary, too woven into the fragile rhythms of daily life. Yet they carry a depth that formal words sometimes cannot ...

"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 ...

(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 ...

Four years ago, almost every church building in America and beyond was closed and silent on Easter. That week I wrote this to pastors: We will come to Easter Sunday as reluctant soloists, with only ...