Alan Jacobs on Adam’s curse. It’s a funny thing when an idea becomes at once singularly despised and surprisingly fascinating, simultaneously passé and sexy. Take the doctrine of original sin—that ...

A significant number of Christians reject basic teachings about sin, according to a new survey, which one prominent ...

Conversion in a Papua New Guinea community. In answer to the first question, some have pointed to social disruption—colonialism, capitalism and globalization—as the reason people are abandoning ...

What happens when a foundational principle of the Christian faith quietly slipped from the grasp of tens of millions of ...

Few theological concepts are as mangled and misinterpreted as the concept of sin. Yet we find the subject off-putting. We don’t understand it well because we prefer not to discuss it. Growing up, many ...

Last week saw two attacks on communities of faith. The first, at an African American church, was thwarted by security measures the congregation had put in place after Charleston. Undeterred, the ...

Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice. For them, ...