Midway through Sunday worship, I realized my sermon didn’t fit with Father’s Day. I had a Father’s Day prayer to use during the pastoral prayer, but it felt perfunctory to read the words. Truth is, ...

Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws on the Hebrew Bible’s patriarchal God tradition. In Deuteronomy 32:6 Moses explicitly refers to God as ...

The Talmud sternly warns against invoking divine compassion by referencing “the compassion He shows to the mother bird,” who is sent away before her chicks are taken. Such an appeal is immediately ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. I want to begin by reading you a new hymn just to stimulate your thinking. I don’t know the tune, but the text is as follows ...

I’m about to blow your socks off. If you want to hold onto your britches, pull them up tightly. Here we go: God is all-powerful and all-knowing, but God doesn’t have everything He wants. This is a ...

I’m sympathetic to the arguments for female pronouns. But the linguistic alternatives leave behind a profound truth. I have only ever had a good father. Timothy Beaty is gentle, wise, affectionate, ...

Lucifer’s daddy is home for the fifth and final season of “Lucifer”: the Tom Ellis-led series has cast Dennis Haysbert in the role of God. Lucifer’s (Ellis) father, God, “will appear throughout,” the ...