I heard a story about a husband who got fed up with his wife’s constant worrying. Finally, one day he asked her, “Why are you always worrying when it doesn't do any good?” She quickly yelled back, “Oh ...

This weekend in most Christian churches the central reading is from the Gospel of John, chapter 15. The verses focus around the concept of Jesus commanding us to love one another. Patrick Gallagher ...

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave specific instructions for embodying his story with our lives. None of it “works” in this political climate. The gospel is many things, but at its heart, it is a ...

Between the disciples of Jesus and those whose faith is mostly performative, whose piety is a bit too much for show, there should be the starkest difference. One should not be like the others; a ...

Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned and flaxen-haired Jesus. But one day she came across a portrayal of ...