When you hear about God, what comes to your mind? It probably depends on the values you learned from your parents. If you grew up in a faith community that taught that God was angry, judgmental, and ...
I love theology. Now, before you dust me off, consider a definition of theology: the study of God and his relation to the universe. According to the late R.C. Sproul, everyone is a theologian. That is ...
Photo by Aaron Burden, courtesy of Unsplash. A Reflection for Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time You can find today’s readings here. “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone!
Our hearts and souls can’t fulfill the Great Commandment without our minds. Jesus was once asked to identify the greatest and most important thing for followers of God to do (Matt. 22:36–37). His ...
World Vision study surveyed 4,600 children worldwide and affirms the importance of family in spiritual formation.
“For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay each according to his conduct.” Find today’s readings here. When I graduated from the Jesuit School of ...
Faith often looks the same from the outside. Folded hands. Closed eyes. Temple bells. Morning aarti. But underneath these shared rituals, the relationship people carry with God can be very different.
Q. The Catholic Church teaches that hell is eternal. How is that consistent with an all-loving God who wants the best for us? If you’re an unrepentant sinner for 50, 60, 70 years or more, does that ...
Sometimes the world changes with an unexpected glance by a bored boy during a bitter winter. It was a few days after Christmas of 1963. My father was in England and we would be moving there soon. For ...
Mr. Wehner, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, is a contributing Opinion writer. He attends McLean Presbyterian Church in McLean, Va. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más ...
Note: The writer of this piece has permission from the woman in this story to share the following. When I was a novice in the religious life, I knew a young sister who began suffering from panic ...