There are a number of levels at which the experience of an 80-year-old woman cannot be mine. For one thing, I’m a man; and I’m in my 20s. Yet seeing the world through another’s eyes to the extent ...
Two friends are going for a walk together in their favorite local park. One of them turns to the other and says something very annoying, perhaps accompanied by a knowing giggle at her antics. The ...
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Peter Claver, priest “For in him dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily, and you share in this fullness in him, who is the head of every principality and ...
Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned and flaxen-haired Jesus. But one day she came across a portrayal of ...
It’s our adoption into God’s family and the seal of our union with Christ. We don’t take it seriously enough. What is baptism? Is it necessary? Does it do anything? Who can receive it, and when, and ...
Everything you want to know about prophetic succession and apostolic interregnums — the period when the Quorum of the Twelve leads the Church of Jesus Christ after one prophet dies and before another ...
Mr. Wehner, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, is a contributing Opinion writer. One of the forgotten facts of the story of Jesus’ life is that he came from a profoundly dysfunctional family. I was ...
In the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, city and church leaders canceled all Christmas festivities this year to mourn the more than 20,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza. We ...