Lenten habits of voluntary suffering—what Christians have long called “mortification”—help us to imitate Jesus and join in his work. Growing up as a Methodist, the church calendar oriented my ...

Easter is the central miracle upon which the entire Christian faith is based and even depends. Yes, Christmas has more pageantry, and especially for Westerners, it has a longer season than Easter. But ...

It’s all too easy to forget that within each of us lies a spiritual dimension.

But saying the church is Christ’s body means, by the Spirit, our visible community genuinely carries Christ’s presence in the world. That’s why the grounds of our unity are not a comparison drawn from ...

“As long as there are fools and rascals there will be religions,” Voltaire declares in a letter to his friend Frederick II of Prussia. “Ours is assuredly the most ridiculous, the most absurd and the ...

At times the phrase is used to support the notion of America as a Christian nation or as one that owes its allegiance specifically to the Christian God. Some current Cabinet officials and recent ...