Many worshipers will receive the marking of the cross in ash on their foreheads on Wednesday, meant to show that a person ...

How a trait that seems so virtuous — so Christian — became the bogeyman for a new movement of conservative evangelicals.

Ash Wednesday falls on March 5 this year, the year of 2025 A.D. Ash Wednesday begins a season of repentance, a season which ...

And what constitutes a sin, in Leschziner’s view? Excerpts from an interview. As an atheist and a neurologist, what prompted this study of the seven Christian sins? I grew up in England ...

one that is in direct conflict with a Christian understanding of sin. As St. Paul writes, “For there is no distinction; since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:22b ...

while others simply deny sin itself. Some Christians claim that the Bible never teaches it and so on. However G.K. Chesterton while still an Anglican wrote in his book, Othrodoxy, that original ...

Here He is speaking, not to a criminal, but to a pious religious man. Thus, being “born again” indicates a radical change, ...

Ash Wednesday gets its name from the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of the faithful as a sign of penance.

Raffety believes that churches are steeped in societal prejudices against people with disabilities, and she calls Christians to repent and find radical new ways of thinking about disability. She shows ...

Christians are observing Ash Wednesday, ushering in the 40-day season of Lent, when the faithful prepare for Easter by doing ...