Advent is a season of expectation. In the liturgy of these weeks, a recurrent theme is God’s closeness to humanity. The Old ...

I have contemplated submitting an article on a Jewish perspective on God, but I have been very blocked. There are multiple Jewish perspectives on pretty much any issue, so homing in on one Jewish ...

Christmas is so familiar that it is easy to miss how utterly unlike every other religious claim it truly is. The story is ...

Sunday, June 24, is the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. Mass Readings: Isaiah 49:1-6; Psalm 139:1-3, 13-15; Acts 13:22-26; Luke 1:57-66, 80. Today the Church celebrates the Nativity ...

Advent teaches us how to live inside a promise that hasn’t yet finished unfolding, Jason Edwards says this season.

Jesus says to the Sadducees: “You are completely wrong! You don’t know what the Scriptures teach. And you don’t know anything about the power of God.” (Matthew 22:29). For a true understanding of ...

So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead....You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. James 2:17,24 Some Christians claim that we need only to believe or trust in Christ ...

In December we will mark the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ disembarking in Plymouth, Massachusetts. What they endured, and how the responded spiritually to it, are guides for us as we mark the ...

This belief is supported by St Paul, who writes: all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus (Romans 3:24) For it is by grace you have been saved, through ...

About the quasi-military Protestant Christian group known as the Salvation Army, its organisation, charity work and famous connection with music. The Salvation Army is a Protestant denomination of the ...