Religion
In this lecture, Don Carson teaches mainly from Ezekiel 16, which describes Jerusalem’s spiritual adultery and compares the city to an ungrateful prostitute ...
Are you struggling to balance your faith with the challenges of mental health? As Muslims, we face unique questions when it comes to well-being: How can we m...
Report recommends monks not be allowed to give pastoral advise or pose for selfiesMonk abused children for decades ‘in plain sight’, review says An abbey on ...
Since 2008, when I began compiling an annual list of important theology stories, Christianity has been receding across the West. And while many years include...
The new December 2024 issue of Themelios has 234 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews. It is freely available in three formats: (1) PDF, (2) web v...
One of my favorite songs is “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears. While the song represents what’s best about ’80s music, it also gets at a...
Thaddeus Kotik groomed, raped and sexually assaulted boys and girls on Caldey Island despite repeated complaintsA monk was able to abuse children for four de...
At the beginning of this decade, the entire Western world saw an existential intermission unknown in living memory. Like the wind and waves at Jesus’s rebuke...
Have you noticed the subtle shift in how congregations seek spiritual guidance? Where congregants once began with “My grandmother always said . . .” they now...
Suffering. How can one small word hold so much complexity? It can elicit: fear, dread, anxiety, bitterness, anger, and panic. It can also stir up: courage, s...
An elderly priest’s guilty plea exposes the church’s history of shielding predators in its midst for decadesIn the case of serial child molester and retired ...
I’ve always dreaded cancer. When I’d drive past cancer clinics, I’d pray for the people inside.
That dread became more personal four months ago. When I woke...
As period epics go, Gladiator II is vintage Ridley Scott: strong on spectacle and style but only loosely tethered to historical accuracy. From Napoleon (2023...
The veteran actor’s pleasurably zealous turn could be given twice as much screen time in what feels like a wade through dull dramatisations of bits of script...
The archbishop of Banterbury could have used his speech to express remorse to victims of abuse. But then there wouldn’t have been any room for lolzI imagine ...
My two earliest memories of my mother couldn’t be more different. The pleasant one is our evening routine: She’d pull me onto her lap to recite the Lord’s Pr...
Which family in American history was the most influential? It depends on whether we mean most influential in industry, politics, or other spheres. But there ...
Isn’t it fascinating how melody, harmony, and even chord progressions in music can stir our hearts to worship God and remind us of the beauty of his characte...
Fiennes is broodingly compelling as a potential English pope caught up in murky Vatican intrigue around choosing the next pontiffWho knew that the laborious ...
Luke 17:11–19 tells the story of 10 lepers calling to Jesus for healing, but only one returns to give thanks. Around Thanksgiving, this passage is often trea...
My credit card dreads the months between August and February. After surviving back-to-school shopping and the onslaught of autumn and winter holidays, I winc...
