A friend asked me this as we sat at a laminated table eating big salads in a little take-out restaurant facing a riverway. It was a recent gorgeous September afternoon, that rare kind of day that is ...

In an online live prayer group, the facilitator showed us a bracelet he wears with the nine Fruit of the Spirit character qualities. He explained that growing up, he was angry, impatient, insecure, ...

‘Spirit-filled’ is an important watchword in the lexicon of evangelicalism. Christians of an evangelical persuasion should feel welcome in the Church of Ireland, then, because our Book of Common ...

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law. —Galatians 5:22-23 Summer is one of my ...

Kindness can seem like one of Christianity’s simpler virtues. Yet Christian kindness asks considerably more of us than being nice, having good manners, or exhibiting pleasant behavior.