As a boy, Robert Louis Stevenson was intrigued by the work of the old lamplighter who went about with a ladder and a torch, setting the street lights ablaze for the night. One evening in Edinburgh, ...

If you could have only one source of light, what would it be? The sunlight? In fact, no other light can match its beauty, its intensity, and the emotional satisfaction that it brings.

Catholics encounter the miracle of the Transfiguration every year on the Second Sunday of Lent. That Sunday’s Gospel early in Lent already points Christians — as Jesus pointed Peter, James and John — ...

In a time marked by anxiety, polarization and uncertainty, the ancient Christian claim that Jesus is “the light of the world” may sound poetic but distant. Yet this image, drawn from the heart of the ...

What happened on Christmas night more than 2,000 years ago fundamentally and irrevocably changed the path of humanity. “When peaceful stillness lay all over and the night was half spent, your Almighty ...

President Woodrow Wilson once told the story of being in a barbershop: “I was sitting in a barber chair when I became aware that a powerful personality had entered the room. A man had come quietly in ...