When we are born into life, we come into it screaming and naked, defenseless before a cruel world and into a cold society that often has no basic respect for life or even the vaguest idea of God. And ...
This faith tradition has weathered persecution, schism and corruption for thousands of years and yet it endures. Humanity’s ...
Ed Lapiz, who popularized a more accessible preaching style, is courting controversy by rejecting the God of the Old ...
Why moral inspiration and doctrinal instruction fall short—and how preaching that transforms the heart achieves what both ...
This sermon was the inspiration for American exceptionalism, the ghostly descendant of the Puritans’ theological vision. Of ...
The first vote I ever cast was against Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election. I was 20 and in college, trying to leave behind my strict Southern Baptist upbringing. Carter seemed to embody ...
The idea of grace may be the most mysterious idea in the Bible. As part of our teacher, Ben Foote’s sermon this morning, he talked about some things he had learned in 2024, that he will continue ...
A friend of King Charles of England, Simon Wolley, commented on race relations: “You can’t change history. You can improve ...
Even the worst acts of violence can be forgiven, but not forgotten, with the right condemnation of those acts.
Father Roberto Pasolini, recently appointed as preacher of the Papal Household, opens up about his journey from teenage faith struggles to becoming a Scripture scholar.
The heady world of the early Christians began with Jewish followers of Jesus and later became dominated by Romans attracted ...
First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...