Paul Prather: Some people in contemporary Christianity seem to shy away from referring to God as the Father because of the baggage. I get that, but I also respectfully disagree.

As St. Francis said, “I am who I am in the eyes of God, nothing more and nothing less.” For better or worse, who God is as Father is learned first and foremost in the home from an earthly father.

One insight about addressing God in our prayers as “our Father” was particularly moving for me as a son of the Father who was learning to be a father to my son.

Because “every one who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved” (Rom. 10:13; Joel 2:32), when we are baptized in the triune Name, God the Father sends “the Spirit of his Son into our ...

Readers praise L.A.'s Father Gregory Boyle for explaining that God's love for those cast aside, including migrants, is more expansive than JD Vance's narrow piety.

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