People Still Haven’t Figured Out Ash Wednesday’s Forehead Smudge
Every Ash Wednesday, some believers mark the occasion with a forehead smudge of ash made in the sign of a cross. By now, this should be common knowledge.
Meaning along the journey.
Every Ash Wednesday, some believers mark the occasion with a forehead smudge of ash made in the sign of a cross. By now, this should be common knowledge.
Churches seem to love conducting personality tests these days. But what does an Enneagram test and other similar ones accomplish?
Why do good, innocent people experience terrible suffering? The death of a 6-year-old girl has many wondering about bad news.
Celebrating his acquittal in the Senate, President Donald Trump may have missed a key message at a prayer breakfast Thursday morning.
I saw a social media post from a pastor who allegedly found a complaint about his church's loud worship service. The response may not surprise you.
You may have seen stories about leaders asking a group of older church members to worship elsewhere. The church says it didn't happen that way.
Can a student who poses with a rainbow cake really be expelled from school? One girl's family says their daughter's school kicked her out because of it.
If you're supporting Donald Trump, then you're obviously going to Heaven. An infamous televangelist essentially made that claim this week.
Religion is a topic I write about frequently here at 'Patrick's Place,' so I thought it might be interesting to see my most-read faith posts of 2019.
In my last post, I mentioned one television show I'm looking forward to focuses on what would happen if Christ came back today.
When I saw a progressive Christian church promise to answer a question about why they focus on Jesus Christ, I was more than a little concerned.
I overheard a nonbeliever recently tell a believer the problem with Christians is that they're made to feel that they must constantly be repenting.
A Catholic priest denied Communion for 2020 presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden at a South Carolina church.
A prominent male pastor asked to play a word-association game responded, 'Go home!' to the name of a well-known female preacher.
In the past decade, the number of people who call themselves Christians in America has declined by a dozen percentage points.
This week, members of the Jewish faith celebrated their holiest of holy days, Yom Kippur, also known as the day of atonement.
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