And we’ve already received it from Jesus our Savior. It’s the same blessing that Christ’s disciples were given right before his ascension into heaven. “And he (Jesus) led them out as far as Bethany, ...

The usual controversy that surrounds Jesus Christ during this period of the year is ... rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven will take, for many, His second coming to dispel or confirm!

Pope Francis marked the day after Christmas by noting Christians are still being persecuted for their faith, as the Church ...

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is unquestionably the senior saint within the Christian tradition. Yet we know remarkably little ...

Kristof: So let’s go back to the Nativity. Of the four Gospels, two describe the virgin birth of Jesus and two don’t mention ...

As he ascended into heaven the angels told the disciples, “Why do you stand here gazing up into heaven. This same Jesus shall come again in like manner.” From that day forward the disciples became the ...

Christians believe that Jesus "died for our sins." To my mind, that is nonsense. Jesus died because of the sins of the people of his time, not for the sins of the people of all time. Even so, given ...

My last column was about young theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the German church facing the rise of Nazism before and ...

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The way of Christ, by contrast, forecloses cruelty. It requires compassion. It inverts our moral compass, or at least it should. We love rags-to-riches stories, for example, so if many of us were ...

We are in the season of Advent. Advent leads us to the beautiful culmination of Christmas, where we celebrate the incarnation ...