With the donkey and colt secured, Matthew tells us that the disciples laid their cloaks on the animals and Jesus mounted the donkey (Matt. 21:1–5). In no other place in all the Gospels is Jesus ever ...

Howard Thurman still speaks to the church. Howard Washington Thurman (1899–1981) played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentieth century. He was one of the ...

The context of Jesus’s defense of marriage is the Pharisee’s defense of a husband’s right to dismiss his wife. We should not be surprised that Jesus defends the ideal of indissolubility found in ...

Coming from a family of eight children, my attempts at jockeying for position in the constellation of siblings basically took the form of whining and complaining. These "petitions" seemed to fall on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Impact Of Faith, Religion, And Spirituality On Mental Health Faith, religion, and spirituality are different constructs that ...

Spirituality and religion can be defined in many different ways, and the distinction between the two concepts often is muddy. For the purposes of this analysis, spirituality refers to beliefs or ...