It’s a hair-raising prayer, to modern minds. Just rude. Like telling someone that you love and respect him and then telling him he smells bad and he has a 3-year-old’s dress sense and his jokes aren’t ...

Two years ago, I was reading an issue of Geez magazine on climate justice in my room at night when the heaviness of the climate crisis flooded me. In my evangelical days I was what some called a ...

I first learned to pray from evangeli­cals who converted me at a Christian camp. Prayer was a “quiet time,” reading the Bible and petitioning God, usually at the start of the day. I was encouraged to ...

All Christians agree that it is important and recognize it as central to Christian identity and practice. Some Christians are very good at it. Others struggle with it. Many Christians secretly do not ...

I wanted to know just how many of Jesus’ prayers did the writers of the Gospels record in their narratives of Jesus’ ministry. So, I turned to the computer which gave me a total of six prayers ...

We don’t demonstrate such exclusionary self-focus in other ministry spheres. Opening our aperture is biblical and aids our advocacy. It rankles me when Christians pray only for persecuted Christians.

We left a tumultuous election season where there were two assassination attempts on the life of our President-elect Donald Trump, and major political unrest. Then we thought we were having a sweet ...

(RNS) — Those facing persecution need Christians to speak up, working across faith and theological lines for those living in danger everywhere. (RNS) — This November, many Christian congregations have ...