The starting point for all discussion about creation and its wonders is Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning, God created the ...

I write to you while looking out onto a lake in southern Indiana, sitting in a cabin where my family vacations every summer. While I’m not a big fan of summer, it’s one of the few times all year the ...

The land is an inheritance. Since mankind first drew breath in Eden, the garden was placed into his care to cultivate and hand on to the next generation. A life on the land unsurprisingly reflects the ...

In the land of Jesus, beauty is everywhere, in churches, mosaics and God’s creation. Clockwise from top left: Mosaic ‘Peace’ tiles on the wall by the Gaza Strip; a Marian image at the Church of the ...

Most of us have heard the quote “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.” According to Google, that means “what one person finds beautiful, another may not, as the perception of beauty is subjective ...

When it seems the whole world suffers, animals are still offering praise. There’s no shortage of ugliness in our world. A quick scan of today’s environmental headlines reveals any number of horrors: ...

A few weeks ago, my mom came back from a trip to Moab, Utah, bearing gifts: a miniature orange buffalo made of calcite, a flamingo-pink ball cap and a half-dollar-sized hunk of fool’s gold. My family ...

The other day, I was at the first Communion of my great-niece Maeve, and was again struck, as I often am, by the holiness of beauty. Maeve is a beautiful 8-year-old (of course, aren't all 8-year-olds ...

The very idea of beauty makes many sophisticates cringe nowadays. It seems utterly out of touch with postmodern ambiguity, since the notion of beauty implies absolute standards widely agreed upon that ...

Dictionary meanings of "ugly" are: unpleasant or repulsive, especially in appearance; not pretty or attractive. Some point out that as God is the creator and designer, God seems to be unfair and ...