REFLECTIONS TODAYThe Assyrian Empire subjugated the northern 10 tribes of Israel and forcibly deported and exiled many prominent Israelites to Nineveh, ...

The hope that the church can provide parents is not the promise that God will assuredly save their children, but that assuredly God is almighty, gracious, and abounding in steadfast love. Parents of ...

As a time of repentance, Lent presents an opportunity to spend six weeks working on one’s relationship with God — which should also result in considering our relationships with family, friends, ...

From time to time, I retreat into the fond memories of my youth in Delta State. Between 1992 and 1993, I served in Asaba as a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)-a predominantly ...

It’s hard to fall when you’re always on your knees. Moral failing cannot gain a stronghold in a broken, praying heart that spends time in the Word and obedience to it (cf. James 1:22). Nine times out ...

Forgiveness Sunday, occurring just before Great Lent in the Greek Orthodox Church, emphasizes themes of repentance and ...

Left unchecked, with no repentance, our many collective individual sins metastasize into what Saint Pope John Paul II called the “structures of sin” – those larger elements within our cultures, ...

This Ash Wednesday many Christians will arrive at work with a black cross smudged on their foreheads; countless more will ...

The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday and Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines outside the confessional ...

But while the TheoBros have set their sights on empathy, Piper has been silently stewing about another deep concern — the sin of lament.

How rare it is to find adults who repent — individuals, businesses and institutions that admit they have done wrong,” Pope Leo said in his homily in the Basilica of Santa Sabina.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent in Western Christianity. Here's what ash means on Ash Wednesday as well as the history of how this tradition came to be.