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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

I sometimes struggle to relate to Jesus. I’ve never walked on water. I’ve never turned water to wine. I’ve sinned. But there is one thing I consider myself blessed to have in common with Jesus: having ...

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 ...

I needed to hear it. Father Mike Schmitz’s talk, that is. “Wrestling With God in Scripture” was part of The Bible in a Year Retreat held over the weekend. I keep thinking about what the host of The ...

Readings: Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 John 18: 1-19:42 A common, though rather shallow, criticism of Christianity is the image of God the Father that some find in the story of Christ’s ...