Sacred time does not "pass" like profane time but somehow suspends. Time disappears and is replaced with what the religious scholar Mircea Eliade calls the "eternal mythical present," with its heroes ...

The early morning holds a special kind of magic that spiritual seekers have treasured for thousands of years. When the world is still quiet and the sun begins to peek over the horizon, something ...

I’m trying to explain the difference between sacred and profane time to my class on world religions, and baseball exemplifies the sacred variety. The experience of a baseball game offers a way of ...

Prayer, fasting, and reading Scripture in community make our days more spacious. If Moses took out his phone to take a video of the burning bush instead of lending his full attention, would he have ...