Christians have good reasons to resist gender-neutral alternatives. Underlying this view is a belief that terms like father and mother are mere human characterizations of God, shaped by specific ...

Jesus, the writers of the New Testament, and observant Jews never say the name of God. So why is saying it such a trend among ...

Fathers and fathering are remote to my daily life now. The idea of God as Father is remote to my life too. Jesus taught me to call God Father. God as Father is woven into Christian theology and ...

Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws on the Hebrew Bible’s patriarchal God tradition. In Deuteronomy 32:6 Moses explicitly refers to God as ...

Grammy-winning Christian artist Michael W. Smith on Father’s Day: Let God father you Whether you had a loving father like I did or not, you can let yourself be loved by your heavenly father.

Many Christian communities refer to God as “Father.” This takes root in the Gospels, where Jesus teaches his followers to pray “ Our Father ,” which Christians continue to say today.