In Christian teaching, the Holy Spirit is believed to guide, comfort, and strengthen believers. The Spirit helps people ...
As I mentioned in my last column, I'm focusing a series of columns on the Holy Spirit over the next few weeks. Next I want to invite us to consider how and where we are to find the divine presence of ...
In 1957 a Dutch theologian named George Johan Sirks published an article in the Harvard Theological Review provocatively titled: "The Cinderella of Theology: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit." Sirks ...
We all know what it means when a person is cited for a DUI (driving under the influence). The apostle Paul says that a committed Christian seeks to operate under the influence — the influence of the ...
The sixth word Christ utters from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our sake. “It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ...
As we approach Pentecost during the first year of the three-year-plus Eucharistic Revival revivifying the Church in the United States, it’s fitting to deepen our awareness and appreciation for the ...
Traditional language about Christian spiritual formation has long been shaped by the impulse to imitate Jesus, a call we hear ringing in Paul’s exhortation to “be imitators of me, as I am of Christ” ...
Abrahamic faiths place the concept of “God” as an entity separate from and above man, indigenous peoples understand God or “Creator” as an integral, indivisible aspect of life, or nature. Some ...
A brief outline of the biblical view of God may help to clarify the main departures of process-theology. The God of the Bible is first and foremost known as the sovereign One, the Monarch of all.