VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis explained that the Holy Spirit’s gift of understanding allows Christians to obtain “intimacy with God” and helps them understand things “as God understands them.” “When the ...

When facing family adversity, my son and I have a conversation. I hadn’t fully wrapped my head around my husband’s traumatic brain injury (TBI). It was March 2012 — over a year since he was struck ...

This is a comment I found myself making relatively often at get-togethers over the recent holiday season. Usually it’s in the context of a conversation where I explain to someone what I do for a ...

The patriarch Abraham not only introduced monotheism but also proposed the concept of an invisible deity. Abraham’s God was beyond anything that the ancient world could imagine: this God could not be ...

Apostle Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi, President, Voice of His Word Ministries, and Convener, The Apostolic Roundtable (TAC), wrote this piece exclusively for SUNDAY INDEPENDENT to exhort Christians and ...

A quote from Pope Francis: “God has no difficulty in being understood by children and children have no trouble in understanding God. it isn’t by chance that in the Gospels, Jesus speaks beautiful and ...

Anselm's ontological argument purports to be an a priori proof of God's existence. Anselm starts with premises that do not depend on experience for their justification and then proceeds by purely ...

Many religious types are staunch supporters of the thought that God created humans. They argue that everything created has a beginning, and God is that beginning, the cause of everything that exists.

PreachingToday.com: What is the value of trying to explore the things we don’t understand about God? Christopher J. H. Wright: When I think from the point of view of preachers who are trying to lead ...