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 ...

Last week, the media was abuzz with the scandal that a University of Cambridge dean had claimed that Jesus may have been transgender. The news was first reported in Telegraph, with other outlets like ...

When her husband Michael died suddenly of a heart attack in 2000, Shirley Wuchter wanted to do something to honor him. What better way, she thought, than to release a collection of his sermons. Before ...

On the Monday after preaching, as I think about what all of those words are doing now that they’re out in the world, my mind wanders to a scene from Marilynne Robinson’s novel Lila. The title ...

In 1 Corinthians 15 the apostle Paul establishes the fact of Christ’s resurrection. He lists details and eyewitnesses, some who were alive at the time he wrote the epistle, so what he was saying could ...

(In this 65th installment of the United Press International series of sermons, Father Gerald E. Murray, pastor of the Catholic Church of St. Vincent de Paul in New York, reflects on the need to change ...

'You can't support the anti-Christ and the Christ,' Stuarts Draft pastor said in sermon. 18,000 fact check lies in 1,100 days were one motivation for the message. Some Baptist sermons mix in politics ...

In January 1922, Pope Benedict XV died suddenly, from pneumonia, and a librarian became Pope. Pius XI was a real, up-close scholar, an expert on ancient manuscripts and fourth century Milanese liturgy ...

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