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And this is the Church: The Lord feeds his people, but he does so through others. On the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, we ...

God’s purpose is never to shame, but to heal and restore (John 3:17; Psalm 147:3). His conviction is not cruelty; it’s ...

It's easy to feel overwhelmed, helpless, or even afraid when the world seems to spin out of control. But as believers in ...

To adopt Yoga’s philosophical anthropology while professing Christian faith is to entertain a dangerous dual allegiance: one rooted in self-deification, the other in Christic dependence. The ...

FIFA Club World Cup has expanded to 32 teams for the first time and the action is spread all across the U.S. this summer ...

When John Lennon released Imagine in 1971, he captured the world’s attention with a hauntingly beautiful melody and a vision of global peace that seemed both noble and necessary. The song has since ...

Freud or God — which way, Christian? Every generation must defend the Gospel anew and protect its young people from Satan’s ...

FIFA Club World Cup was expected to be a coronation for Europe’s elite. Instead, it has become a samba spectacle, with four ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Filipe Luis saw both sides of Friday’s game in his playing career, and he’s been on both ends of the larger battle being ...

Biblical Israel is not the Jewish people, not the state of Israel, and not the Christian Church. Most Israelites were not ...