Sports and community opportunities for school-age children are endless. Find out about one that begins after the final school ...

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Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

PRAYER: May the Lord empower us to commit to seeking Him through fervent prayers and regular fasting so that we may become ...

How do we respond when atheists point to Christian beliefs that they say are scientifically contradicted and cannot be real ...

Our Gospel reading today seems to suggest that if you are enjoying your life now, you can expect great sorrow and pain in the ...

The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has celebrated the ground breaking ceremony for a worship centre in Qatar.

Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the call to holiness in today’s world is entitled Gaudete et Exsultate—“Rejoice and leap for joy” (Lk 6:23)—taken from Jesus’ proclamation of the Beatitudes.

I watched the video several times in stunned disbelief and then several more times in order to accurately transcribe it ...

Aug. 6, 2006, my wife and I were blessed to participate in Sunday school and worship with Jimmy Carter at Maranatha Baptist ...

Any event can be marked by cake, perhaps most surprisingly the solemn fast of Good Friday, with its hot cross buns ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.