The Apostle James has wise words that are often overlooked—if not outright ignored—by many Christians in the modern age. He tells the church, “You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be ...
“Who can understand the power of your anger? But your fury is consistent with the fear that is owed to you. Teach us to number our days in such a way that we bring a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:11-12) ...
The collection of vices known as the Seven Deadly Sins were thought to take one's thoughts away from God, and lead to further sin. We continue our series by looking at one of the most explosive of ...
The concept of sin is a hard sell to atheists and agnostics alike. But one set of sins—the seven deadly sins—has entered the collective consciousness regardless of belief. The origins of the seven ...
What was the last sin you committed? The Bible describes “sin” as a transgression of the law of God (1 John 3:4) and rebellion against God (Deuteronomy 9:7; Joshua 1:18). Each impulse persists into ...
Seven were the sins—pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth —that the early Christian theologians labeled capital, or deadly, on the ground that they led to the commission of other ...
"I am a descendant of angry men," Episcopal priest Keizer tells readers at the outset of this wise and beautiful reflection on anger. With that, we are lured into a book that is both intensely ...
In 1986 filmmaker Maxi Cohen was one of seven women filmmakers commissioned by German television to interpret the Seven Deadly Sins She was given the sin of anger and began by putting an advertisement ...
It all started at Carnegie Hall. When New York’s legendary cathedral of classical music offered to commission a song cycle for Broadway star Audra McDonald to premiere, her pianist and music director, ...
The concept of sin is a hard sell to atheists and agnostics alike. But one set of sins—the seven deadly sins—has entered the collective consciousness regardless of belief. The origins of the seven ...