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 ...

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 ...

As we all know, this season of Lent is a time that we, in a certain sense like Jesus, put ourselves apart from our everyday concerns, everyday life. As foremost in our life, we try to spend 40 days, ...

On June 20, Sen. Bob Casey was quoted on President Donald Trump’s immigrant family separation policy. He called it “straight from the pit of hell” (“Chaos at the border.”) By contrast, Rep. Lloyd ...

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot wrote those words in 1949, when he was a college student bent on complete and utter obedience to the Lord. In 2001, ...

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 ...

Let’s be honest: we all have parts of Catholic teaching or practice that we struggle to believe or understand. Maybe it’s a particular Marian apparition, or whether that awfully-waxy saint’s body is ...

Could this suggest a division within evangelical circles? These endorsements came days before the release of Tim Alberta's book "The Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age ...