Cathleen Falsani is an award-winning, longtime religion journalist and author, specializing in the intersection of spirituality and culture.

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Perspective

A woman without a church learns 'everything belongs' at Richard Rohr's Living School

Perspective: Entering the yearlong cohort at the Center for Action and Contemplation's Living School during a pandemic was both awful and perfect timing, says writer Cathleen Falsani.

Bono and Guggi: A friendship based on art, punk rock and Jesus

"Myself and Bono, we weren't like the other kids in the street and we knew we weren't," Guggi told Religion News Service recently during "My Cup Overflows," an exhibit of his new works at Arcane Space, a gallery in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles co-owned by Morleigh Steinberg, wife of U2 guitarist The Edge.

Rachel Held Evans showed us how to hold the church door open for others

Appreciation: When news of Rachel Held Evans' death May 4 reached me a few hours after her passing, it literally knocked me to my knees. I simply could not believe it. How had this unwavering source of light and grace in the world been struck down and silenced?

For millennials, mysticism shows a path to their home faiths

While many younger Americans today are spiritually unaffiliated, aka "nones" — a quarter of all adults under the age of 30 in the United States say they don't identify with any religion or spiritual tradition, according to the Pew Center for Religion and Public Life — millennials are increasingly finding contemplative spirituality appealing.