Devlyn Brooks is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and serves Faith Lutheran Church in Wolverton, Minnesota.

A devotion by a favorite author that I religiously read daily jarred me to an awakening earlier this week. It reminded me that often when we are searching for a glimpse of the heavenly kingdom ...

Devlyn Brooks is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and serves Faith Lutheran Church in ...

Re “My Decade-Long Journey to Belief,” by David Brooks (column, Dec. 22): Mr. Brooks’s revelations about spiritual and religious seeking are profound and interesting. For many “faith” seems to be a ...

“To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did. When God takes something from your grasp, the Lord is not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something ...

"I was out of the church for a very long time," he says. "My parents divorced when I was very young, and we belonged to a small church in a small town. "And as small churches and small towns do, they ...

Our youngest daughter, and last child at home, graduated high school, and moved away from us, all within the span of two hours this past week. Twenty-eight years of raising children, and in the span ...

A "remarkable" transformation is underway in American religious life, Cornell-led research finds. Large numbers are leaving organized religion—not in favor of secular rationality, but to pursue ...