"Matters of the Heart Artwork" by BetoTheDJ is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Valentine’s Day has morphed into a global tradition. Although this popular holiday has roots in pagan traditions that began ...

In one of the key meditations of the Exercises (Ignatius’ prayer) Ignatius of Loyola implores the retreatant to speak to Jesus “as one friend speaks to another.” It’s communicating from the heart.

Songwriting isn’t a science. It is certainly an art, and with that comes an unpredictable process. It can take years for a song to be completed. That was the case for Don Henley’s “Heart of the Matter ...