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A content creator and photographer, Awah Eric aka Anoodamatta, has 771,00 followers on Facebook, and 73,800 followers on Instagram. He tells NAOMI CHIMA about content creation and other issuesHow did ...

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell is a downright mythical figure among PC gamers, and a new interview with the man isn't doing anything to break that illusion. Certainly, we have to ask: is a man who ...

I wonder whether the framing of the liturgy itself in instrumentalizing terms may unintentionally reinscribe problematic ...

We should pray for the conversion of many people, in and outside of the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of ...

Devlyn Brooks is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and serves Faith Lutheran Church in ...

The world is loud. Everyone’s doing something. Hustling, fixing, scrolling, reacting, achieving. We are constantly told that if we stop, even for a moment, we’ll fall behind. That doing nothing is ...

Can We Improve God’s Creation? What happens when a man sees not just a rock, but the rock? Michelangelo’s Pietà offers a parable of how human creativity, rightly ordered, gives glory back to God.

When we behold God’s beauty, we transcend the small worlds we create for ourselves. We’re caught up in something greater. “God did not rest because he was tired,” says Grace Marie, 11.

Have you ever wondered what God was doing before He created the universe? It’s a question that comes up a lot, and it might seem like a tricky one to answer. But according to Christian apologist Ken ...

But Rabbi Schneider challenges this assumption, pointing out that the Sabbath predates the Law of Moses. “Shabbat is part of God’s divine design that He built into creation for mankind before the law ...