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 ...

Theologian N T Wright recently emphasized that while God transcends gender, using traditional male pronouns like Father ...

Adam Christopher Sheafe, 51, confessed to crucifying William Schonemann, 76, and placing a crown of thorns on his head ...

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 ...

In the first centuries of Christian life, bishops wrestled with the Greek in this puzzle – whether God the Father and Jesus ...

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 ...

Christians, however, believe in a triune God: God the father, God the son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit. And many evangelicals will say that means Muslims and Jews do not worship the same god ...

Gary Christian stood in an East Tennessee church pulpit on a sunny August Sunday, speaking about pain and death and faith and God. It’s not a place — or a point — where the father of murder ...

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.

The published worship resources of mainline churches diminish the use of father, include hymns that celebrate a wide variety of metaphors for God, encourage the praying of the psalms in which are many ...

Wonder Land: Russia and China want to replace the West. Benedict wanted to save it. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly In “Orthodoxy,” his masterpiece of Christian apologetics, G.K ...