People often come to know Christ because of the influence of one person — and sometimes they walk away for the same reason.

Even as the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage made a prayer stop at St. Vincent DePaul Church near downtown Los Angeles on June 21, the fear and tensions from recent raids by the U.S. Immigration and ...

That got me thinking that Thoreau should be the fourth instalment of my Historical Heroes series wherein I take admirable ...

If the Christ Child were not divine, then this Gospel passage would present idolatry in a positive light. Later Jesus even allows people to worship-adore Him, as in John 9: 38.

The art historian Matthew Holman makes a personal selection from the finest collection of its type—celebrated for the breadth ...

Muslims believe in one God, all-powerful and ever present, uncreated, without beginning or end, completely sufficient to ...

This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325)! The word ecumenical comes from the Greek oikoumene (οἰκουμένη), which translates as “the whole inhabited ...

Rector’s son Stephen must come to terms with the complexity of his desires while grappling with societal pressure and ...

We can't leave out the “bad news of the Gospel.” If people aren't told about trials and tribulations, they'll blame God when ...

OK, SO SUNDAY, if you’re in church, you’ll hear about one of the great villainesses in the Bible: Jezebel (if your clergy person uses that lesson).

Biblical Israel is not the Jewish people, not the state of Israel, and not the Christian Church. Most Israelites were not ...

She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun ...