This Third Sunday of Advent is called Gaudete (rejoice) Sunday. Pope Francis has consistently called us to live with joy, most especially in his apostolic exhortation "The Joy of the Gospel," in which ...

My goal is to live for the glory of God. What does that mean? Well, let me step back and explain. I believe that everything is a gift from God — not just the earth, its richness and it sustenance, but ...

By Pastor Kevin Barnhart Spring Grove Evangelical Free This will be the fix we have been waiting for. It took 10 days to come ...

My wife and I were mad at God. We were new in the ministry, and our first child was born dead. We thought God was mean and unfaithful. After all, isn’t the bargain that if we serve God, he will keep ...

Every year I come to Easter and feel like I should be filled with an exuberant joy, like that of the roaring crowd after a walk off game winning home run, but each year I can’t seem to shake the ...

Walter Wangerin, a widely recognized writer on the issues of faith and spirituality, wrote: “The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow ...

Christian Wiman, the celebrated poet, professor of literature at Yale and Christian intellectual, in his book Joy, which is a collection of poetry and writings on the subject of joy, opens the book ...

A person hearing God's call to follow him does not mean that person then belongs to a special or privileged clique of the perfect or the "elected," Pope Francis said. "The call is never a privilege.

Joy is all but extinguished around us. It cannot be extinguished within us. Is it premature to talk about joy? Countless people are suffering. Fear haunts our houses. Our cities are desolate, our ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...