Dear Chaplain: What are the seven deadly sins in the Bible? Will they cause you to die or will they keep you from going to heaven? – Signed, The scary seven Dear The Scary Seven: Thank you so much for ...

1 John 5:17 (RSV) explicitly differentiates a mortal sin from a less serious one: “All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not mortal” (KJV: “not unto death”). Denying this would be ...

We all have a vice or bad habit of some sort that trips us up from time to time. Yours might be eating too much chocolate when stressed out, binge-watching television for an entire day in bed, or ...

For many centuries, interpreters of the Old Testament have thought that the “wickedness” for which God destroyed Sodom with fire and brimstone was homosexuality. That interpretation is mistaken, says ...

In an era when religion often gets pitted against queerness, many bigots love to claim that being transgender—along with being LGBTQ+ in general—is a sin. But is there any real basis for this claim in ...

Americans are changing their understanding and definition of “sin,” according to the latest Barna research. A press release ...