Baptism does what nothing else can. As Martin Luther said, by baptism “we are made holy and are saved, which no other kind of ...

I wasn’t preaching hate or using profanity,” says Jimbo Gillcrist. But four parishioners threw him to the ground. From ...

A man who walked up to the pulpit at the church he’d grown up in, Holy Spirit Catholic Church in the Kansas City suburb of ...

After his baptism by John, Jesus was led into the mountain, perhaps not a literal mountain, where he fasted for 40 days and ...

Jesus may have been an excellent carpenter. Or maybe he wasn’t. It’s possible that he made perfectly level tables but wobbly chairs. Or, if he was a stone mason, which the Greek word translated as ...

Our true and permanent identity is something that hasn’t yet fully come about. Jesus’ transfiguration also reveals his true ...

We sell our faith short, and so we sell our Lent short. At least I do. I have spent most of my life thinking of the faith as ...

This can be disconcerting. Ennui is not a problem with a reliable fix, as “everything is going alright” is rarely something ...

The spiritual life is an arduous task. God cloths himself in mystery and so the process of discerning his will and knowing ...

Karina led the way as dozens of East African youth – and some onlookers – took a public stand for Jesus. “One of the guards ...

Jesus warns us in Luke 12 that following him will divide “father against son and son against father, mother against daughter ...