The fourth servant song, Isaiah 52:13-53:12, is the most powerful reading I’ve encountered this Lent. It will be the first ...

AS A MISSIONARY in France, I shared a movie called “Together Forever” with those we were teaching. The film emphasizes that our happiest memories often come from time spent with family. It also ...

Next week begins the Week called Holy, with Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord on April 13 and concluding with Easter Sunday on April 20. Toward the end ...

"Christ is truly the Emmanuel, that is, God ... you! "Behold I will be with you always even to the end of the world," because "I have loved you with an everlasting love, and constant is my ...

The Surya Tilak of Ram Lalla is a remarkable celestial event that takes place every year on Ram Navami, marking the divine ...

The first quarter of the 21st century saw a major rise in the number of people in the USA who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular, w ...

Pope Francis arrived in a wheelchair at the end of the Mass for the Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers, sparking joyous shouts of “Viva il Papa!” from the more than 20,000 present.

Its basic message was that we can be assured of our salvation ... Obeying God's Law does not save us, but the Law does point to sins that can damn us (Romans 3:20). As an analogy, my civil ...

Ikú Bàbá Yèyé o!I hail thee, ‘omo ikú tí ikú ò gbódò’ pa’—the child of death, whom death must not kill; omo árún tí árún kò gbódò se—the child of pestilence, whom pestilence must not strike. Sàngó, ...

Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit,which is the word of God. And pray in the Spiriton all occasionswith all kinds of prayers and requests.With this in mind, be alert and always ...

The sheer beauty of Varanasi—the temples, the river banks, the aroma of incense—floods you as Pankuj Parashar—the man who’d have been ‘kink’ (remember Jalwa and Chalbaaz) goes into a heady but ...

This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying, "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your king is coming to you ... With hearts full of praise; Be exalted, O Lord my God! Hosanna ...