Father, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our sins for we ourselves ...

Thus, while the words of the Our Father are precious, it is also important to look at the underlying structure implicit in the prayer. There are five basic disciplines taught in the Our Father, and ...

Jesuit Father John Gavin begins his book with an evocative image: Pliny the Younger’s eyewitness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Aug. 24, 79 A.D. This cataclysmic event buried the entire ...

After giving his disciples the Our Father, that prototype of all Christian prayer, Jesus asks a series of rather startling questions—startling, because of their razor-sharp commentary on human ...

The Bible tells us much about God being our true Father. Some people grow up without a father, never knew their father, or had a father who was emotionally absent from their lives. Any of these ...

According to Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, so begins the prayer that Jesus taught us. Not only was Ms. Eddy’s use of “Father-Mother” well ahead of 19th-century gender politics, ...

I find myself attracted by what we call “coffee table” books, and I like having them around the house. Even if they are not often used, they remain a reminder of their subjects, which are in that ...