Since last week’s newsletter offered a favorite argument for the existence of God, it’s only fair to balance the scales by ...

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Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

By Nelson Semanu BOANDOH-KORKOR & Elizabeth BOANDOH-KORKOR Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd ...

Six young people who lived with deep faith and committed their lives to the Church that Jesus founded are on their way to ...

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and ...

The greatest gift in the world — salvation — is completely free. God offers this most precious gift to everyone, and it remains available to each of us today. Romans 6:23 reminds us: ‘For the wages of ...

In the Beatitudes, Jesus turns the popular meaning of 'blessed' on its head.

The Bible says, in the beginning the Earth was wild and empty. In Hebrew it is called Tohuwabohu, utter chaos. So God turned ...

You can look at the Bible and see the DSM Five in almost every story,' Jay Barnett said, referring to the 'Diagnostic and ...

We must recognize that reaching the LGBT community, like any other group, is ultimately a work of the Holy Spirit ...