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 ...

In the second, we are far from God and need to be brought near. Both views are biblical. But with this shift—from a sin-sick ...

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, ...

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 ...

In order for the Realm of God to prevail, Christians must give up nationalistic idolatry and the destructive sin of Christian Nationalism. In many ways, this desolating sacrilege of Christian theology ...

(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 ...