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Common to all these variations in spiritual formation is the believer being conformed to Christ, a transformation enabled by ...

God is described as male in many religions and referred with masculine imagery, but when asked, many religious types insist ...

The black-and-white thinking in our politics brings to mind a skill that the state of Texas requires me to teach my college ...

An Iranian Christian has given her insights into the meaning of Ramadan for Muslims and has shared three prayer topics for ...

The story of Easter is thus not about balancing or neutralizing sin but about the collapse of sin’s false narrative under the ...

It is heartening to know that India’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by some Dalit Catholics from Kumbakonam ...

The desert helps us to encounter God by burning away our delusions and scorching our self-deceptions. It is a hostile ...

God knows when we are on the first rung that we will have to continually “look up” to him. He is the one who started a good ...

That it is not alcohol, but ice that destroys our health, saying that if you drink whisky with ice, gin with ice, rum with ...

The Polish prelate, who heads the Vatican's Dicastery for the Service of Charity, is the pope's point man for distributing ...