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As many parents consider the merits of public versus private schools, teachers also wonder about how to serve God in each context. Holly Vicente Robaina provides a story about Christian teachers bringing hope and renewal to a challenging setting.

Christianity has been called a “bloody religion.” Christians have built their faith, after all, on the bloody death of the crucified Jesus. But what does that mean? How does the blood of Christ save?

Fat Tuesday has a long history in Christianity, but some of its traditions predate Christianity. For that reason, Christians need to understand Fat Tuesday and some of its history.

Tish Harrison Warren has established herself as a Christian writer who can be published in secular or faith-based publications, with a unique take on living the Christian life. So what makes her unique?

The Season of Remembrance marks how humanity has attempted to understand and honor the process of life and death and the associated fears of famine, war, and death over the last 2,700 years.

Mother Teresa's goal was showing the love of God at all times, and her words and actions continue to be shared around the world today.

What do we really know about the nails used to crucify Jesus on the cross? Archeological evidence and other sources tell us a lot more than you might expect.

Like all those celebrating then, it is for us, for our sins, that Jesus would be crucified mere days later. And knowing what we know now, we celebrate and praise Jesus for his love, his grace, his sacrifice, and for his triumphal entry into our...

Call it favoritism, call it unbiblical hierarchies. Either way, it's common for Christians to rank each other based on how old they are, whether they're married, and other biases. So how can we deal with this?

When the New Testament speaks about Christians, they are often referred to as “sojourners and exiles,” who are citizens of a Kingdom “not of this world.” In the intervening centuries, the Church operated from the margins.

Johnny Cash struggled with the faith he learned about as a child, but never gave up on it. What can Christians today learn from him about running the race for faith?

The incarnation is about the miraculous paradox of God’s approach, the utterly strange and beautiful way he came and “tabernacled” among us (John 1:14).

You may have heard about the succubus in scary movies. But did you know that Christians like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas wrote about the succubus? What do these sources tell us, and can we see evidence of the succubus in the Bible?

Christmas isn’t about what we get under the tree but who Jesus is in our lives and what his birth meant for us centuries after his resurrection. It’s the yearly reminder that he sacrificed his life so that we could be reunited with our heavenly...

Matthew 18:18 is a trust from God himself. It is not a temporal power to be wielded with a heavy hand, personal agenda, or political intent. The ultimate goal in every situation must be for grace and reconciliation among the body of Christ.

From Mary’s song, we can learn about a girl who demonstrated true faithfulness to the Lord. She chose to worship and rejoice in God despite not knowing what the future held for her and the Son who would be born to her.

Hymns about communion help us see Jesus' sacrifice in new ways, to reflect on what we're really commemorating.

Even if you grew up in a liturgical church that observed Holy Week, you may not be familiar with the term “Spy Wednesday.” The term is an alternate name for a particularly dark day in Holy Week, one that centers on Judas Iscariot.

As we seek to understand some of the major differences between Christianity and Islam, it is impossible to ignore 1,400 years of a conflicted history. It is a story more often written in blood than with ink.