The people were filled with expectation." That is how Luke described the excitement around John the Baptist. When do we experience such public emotion? Doesn't it seem easier to unite around something ...

Occasionally a Christian will come to me saying that they want to go “deeper”. What they usually mean by this is that they want to do an “in-depth” study of the Scriptures. Now here is the problem.

Speaking for God can be a messy business. Very messy. No matter how sincere you are, you might turn out eventually to have been wrong. No matter how many scriptures you cite to prove your point, those ...

When we listen to the Scripture lessons at a Eucharist like this, sometimes as a result of our reflection on those Scriptures, we're urged to move into our worldly life with some action, try to change ...

Almost all the scriptures were written by men. As humans have a desire to live forever, religion provides attractive offers of life after death. Humans invented God, the superhuman, to answer all the ...

Seeking perfection in the spiritual life is sometimes dismissed as unrealistic, but achieving this ideal in our daily interactions is almost inevitable. For providing the most mundane information, ...

After more than thirty years of faithful prayer, God answered Bukayo Adegboye's lifelong request, bringing her brother to Christ after her passing.

Are we sinners in the hands of an angry God as the famous sermon by Early American Protestant preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards would have it? Or are we children of a loving God? This week’s ...

Q: I’m a 75-year-old man who’s never followed any formal religion but have always tried to do what I thought was right. As of late, I’ve been reading (with great interest) about something called Deism ...