Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In the Book of Mark, Jesus explains the unforgivable sin. The Pharisees, having witnessed Jesus ...

It’s about Harvard Divinity School students researching what people thought about “infant baptism.” They were looking for subtle, nuanced answers. But when one farmer was asked if he believed in ...

YES, sin caused initial suffering, but NO, not all suffering is caused by sin. The Bible teaches that suffering is a result of human sin and the fall of humanity. However, suffering can also be a ...

(RNS) — In her book ‘Fully Alive,’ the podcaster and author argues that admitting we aren’t as great as we think we are opens the door to a better life. Not the finger-pointing, fire and brimstone, ...

One of the central themes of the gospel is that Jesus came to save sinners. Salvation is described in many ways — amazing grace, atonement, deliverance, love, new life, sacrifice, etc. The washing ...

Dear Dr. Graham: Is it a sin to get discouraged when things don't go the way we want them to? Did Jesus ever get discouraged? Mrs. K.K. Dear Mrs. K.K.: We all get discouraged from time to time, ...

No sooner had the reports of the Sixth International Birth Control Conference been printed (TIME, Apr. 6) and circulated, than the great opponent of this movement uttered unalterably stern and solemn ...

Books, movies and the stage sometimes tell as much about the spiritual state of an era as the churches. Broadway’s most notable failure this season was Roman Catholic Novelist Graham Greene’s play, ...

WASHINGTON — Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice.