It’s been said that a sermon should be judged by its impact beyond the moment when it’s preached. In the last month, the ...

Marianne Moyaert provides a helpful but somber history of the ways European Christians have imagined people of ...

Supremacy feels so good on the inside that we are all vulnerable to its sirens. The first White supremacist I ever met was my ...

This all came to an abrupt halt this winter with President Trump’s flurry of aggressive executive orders. Along with closing ...

John McCormick Buchanan, former century editor and publisher and longtime pastor of the second-largest congregation in the ...

In a statement from the Vatican, doctors at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome where Pope Francis is being treated for pneumonia ...

Genesis 45:3-11, 15 (Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40); 1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50; Luke 6:27-38 ...

It’s not an abstraction; it’s love in its most extreme action. With these words Jesus establishes an extraordinary standard for compassion. We may find it difficult enough to love good friends, or ...

Those who brood over their resentments—a behavior from which we get the saying “revenge is a dish best served cold”—only ...

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