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. — ...

On my best mornings, I stumble out of bed and land on my meditation cushion where I spend at least 20 minutes in contemplative prayer. I acknowledge that I am in the presence of God, and then dedicate ...

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) ...

I love looking at old photographs; it’s the closest thing to time travel that I know. I find myself staring at century-old black and white photos taken on the streets of large cities. I look at the ...

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 ...