Theology+Spirituality

The 'Assumed' Fate of Jesus' Mother
Roman Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Assumption on Sunday. What's up with that?
This World Really Is Our Home
We're not just passing through, says theologian Michael Wittmer, author of Heaven Is a Place on Earth.
Why Paul Loved His Body
2 Corinthians doesn't teach that flesh and spirit are opposites, Michael Wittmer says.
Sanctifying Sin
Statement affirming homosexual unions roils Anglicans.
Explorers of Noah's Lost Ark
Citing new satellite images, team seeks to 'solidify the faith of many Christians.'
God Minus World = God
Does God need our help, love, and praise?
All Apologies
Are today's kinda culpas more safe than sorry?
The Amish Come Knocking
UPN's Amish In the City shows us our modern selves in a mirror that is positively medieval.
The Evil In Us
Prisoner torture in Iraq exposes the ordinary face of human depravity.
The Cruel Edges of the World
There are some places that bring the distant biblical text closer to our lives.
Tom Wright Comments for Everyone
The author of the Christian Origins and the Question of God series is also writing a commentary series for the masses.
For All the Saints
A new book reminds us to get our heads and hearts together, in the company of the cloud of witnesses.
Testify!
A glimpse inside the world of holiness testimony, through the story of an ex-slave woman evangelist.
Why the 'Lost Gospels' Lost Out
Recent gadfly theories about church council conspiracies that manipulated the New Testament into existence are bad—really bad-history.
Blessed Are the Lukewarm
Religion is okay with the courts, so long as it doesn't mean anything.
Elephant in the Room
Messianic Jews seem to be an embarrassment in an otherwise thoughtful dialogue.
Driving to Paradise
David Brooks, author of On Paradise Drive, says Americans are on a spiritual search for paradise, and Christians need to supply the language for the search.
When Mother's Day Is Hard
Taking solace in Scripture's difficult and unsentimental image of motherhood.
Holy America, Phoebe!
It swept across church lines, transforming America's urban landscape with its rescue missions and storefront churches. Yet today, the holiness movement and its charismatic woman leader are all but forgotten.
Do Nigerian Miracle Ministries Discredit the Faith?
The spiritual dynamism of West African Christianity is now well known even in the West. Do credulity-stretching, highly publicized miracles discredit what God is doing in that region?

Top Story May 5, 2024

Conservative Methodists, Unite
Conservative Methodists, Unite
After this week’s UMC votes on LGBTQ issues, African Methodists should join American conservatives in the new Global Methodist denomination.

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