The school’s replica mold of Martin Luther’s face reminds me that I’m readying the plaster for the tradition that bears his name.

(RNS) — In his new book, ‘Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa’s Confessor,’ Michael Battle delves into the ways Tutu’s religious formation shaped a vision that helped topple apartheid ...

Is mysticism only for the rarefied few? The Meister Eckharts in the Christian tradition, the Isaac Lurias in the Kabbalah of Jewish mystical thought, the Rumis in the Sufi tradition within Islam? Or ...

Beyond the aphorisms of a few well-known figures, Christian mystics and mysticism are fairly opaque to most of us. Quoting the well-worn “all shall be well” of Julian of Norwich or having a vague ...

Bernard McGinn, a professor at the University of Chicago, discussed his upcoming book Mysticism in the Reformation as a part of the Lowell Humanities Series on Wednesday night. His upcoming work kept ...