I grew up singing hymns — church songs, as we called them — and I’m convinced the words they taught me impacted my life in ways far beyond the messages they imparted. As a child, I memorized songs and ...

On Great and Holy Saturday the Orthodox Church commemorates the burial of Christ and His descent into Hades. It is the day between the Crucifixion of our Lord and His glorious Resurrection.

In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the ...