I have a confession: after decades of being a Christian, I still struggle with sin, some of which have dogged me for a long time.

Christian author Allie Beth Stuckey, author of “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion” and fringe ...

Alan Jacobs on Adam’s curse. It’s a funny thing when an idea becomes at once singularly despised and surprisingly fascinating, simultaneously passé and sexy. Take the doctrine of original sin—that ...

Conversion in a Papua New Guinea community. In answer to the first question, some have pointed to social disruption—colonialism, capitalism and globalization—as the reason people are abandoning ...

Few theological concepts are as mangled and misinterpreted as the concept of sin. Yet we find the subject off-putting. We don’t understand it well because we prefer not to discuss it. Growing up, many ...

Last week saw two attacks on communities of faith. The first, at an African American church, was thwarted by security measures the congregation had put in place after Charleston. Undeterred, the ...

Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice. For them, ...

(RNS) — When Bishop Mariann Budde stood in the pulpit at the Washington National Cathedral at an inauguration week prayer service and asked President Donald Trump to show mercy on migrants, she seemed ...