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 ...

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 ...

Midway through Sunday worship, I realized my sermon didn’t fit with Father’s Day. I had a Father’s Day prayer to use during the pastoral prayer, but it felt perfunctory to read the words. Truth is, ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. I want to begin by reading you a new hymn just to stimulate your thinking. I don’t know the tune, but the text is as follows ...

The Talmud sternly warns against invoking divine compassion by referencing “the compassion He shows to the mother bird,” who is sent away before her chicks are taken. Such an appeal is immediately ...

I’m about to blow your socks off. If you want to hold onto your britches, pull them up tightly. Here we go: God is all-powerful and all-knowing, but God doesn’t have everything He wants. This is a ...

Before Jesus died, he established seven sacraments in the Church to shield us with the graces of the Holy Spirit. We can find many types or symbols of the sacraments in the Old and New Testaments, but ...

Lucifer’s daddy is home for the fifth and final season of “Lucifer”: the Tom Ellis-led series has cast Dennis Haysbert in the role of God. Lucifer’s (Ellis) father, God, “will appear throughout,” the ...