This year, instead of giving up chocolate, ice cream or some other decadent food for Lent -- disguising my effort to lose weight with a spiritual discipline -- my husband Ted and I decided to take on ...

Editor’s note: For more than 20 years, Father Raymond de Souza has preached the “Seven Last Words” devotion, a traditional meditation on the seven times Jesus speaks from the cross on Good Friday.

As the gospel music world celebrates the explosive rise of the chart-dominating anthem “Don’t Play With Me (God on My Side)”, a powerful truth is being brought to the forefront: the song was created, ...