Are humans still made in God's image? Many find the idea of humans being created in the image/likeness of God a great thought to make the world a better place; eliminating all prejudices; inspiring us ...
Sometimes we miss things in the Bible, though they are right in front of us. Some of our Protestant brethren (mainly Calvinists but some other denominations as well) have an almost obsessive fear of ...
“And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness. …. And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.” —Genesis 1:26-27 What does it ...
The Lebanese philosopher Charles Malik and the French jurist René Cassin had little in common. When they met, in 1947, Malik was a devout Orthodox Christian, Lebanon’s first ambassador to the U.S. and ...
Gays are created in the image of God. So are liberals. The rich. The undocumented. Unbelievers. Everyone, even, and most importantly, the people with whom you do not agree. That’s the message of the ...
Elizabeth Johnson has spent her entire life — or at least her decadeslong theological career — trying to get people to think differently about God, beyond the patriarchal image of an authoritarian old ...
A long white beard. A golden throne among clouds. A round and rosy face. Until I started college (yes, college) this was how I imagined God. Consciously or not, my version of God had the same ...
A quote from Pope Francis: "Today too humanity constructs images of God that prevent us from appreciating His real presence. Some offer a 'do-it-yourself' faith that reduces God to the limited spaces ...