Meanings of words change, especially within the Christian culture. Some words lose their impact. We read familiar verses with dullish senses. One that has fallen prey to the ups and downs of ...

Words do things. Words incite. Words provoke. Words comfort. Words persuade. Words convict. Once they are spoken or written, they are difficult to take back. We live in a society burdened by the ...

"Some of us grew up with a loaded gun for a mouth," said Pastor Mark Ellis, of United Christian Faith Ministries in Baton Rouge. "Before we came to Christ, we abused this gift God gave us called the ...

In a pool she always found to be too cold, our daughter may not have received the full bene­fit of swim lessons. Still, her purple lips chattered happily every time she jumped into the water. In one ...

Religion scholars often point out that in the Hebrew Bible, the legal tradition focused attention on danger areas in human life. Commandments deal with such things as money and sexuality — clearly ...

A coalition of faith groups called on leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday to “act now” on AI ...

True confession: There have been some years that I grew so tired of leadership books that I couldn't even walk into a bookstore for fearing of seeing another. After pulling myself together, it ...

At his Nov. 19 general audience, Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to “connect faith with reality,” saying that the death and ...

Tough-as-nails Bear Grylls has fought off wolf packs, survived on next-to-nothing and slept in jungles and deserts, but he ...