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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Christians believe in one God but they believe he exists in three parts or ‘persons’. These are the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, known collectively as the Trinity close Trinity Three ...

Thus, these unmistakably feminine images of Scripture help reclaim a God who is neither male nor female—God does not have a body, after all—and whose likeness is imaged in both male and female ...