“For all who do evil hate the light…so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light …” (John 3:20-21) It was a rainy Sunday in 1969, and my 5-year-old brother ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A politician is accused of lying about whether he had sex with a woman not his wife. Another is accused of accepting lavish ...

Many supposed "theological differences" between Catholics and Evangelicals are, I think, founded in semantics rather than in substantial disagreement. For example, when I was an Evangelical one of the ...

Religion makes it pretty clear what differentiates mortal sins from venial ones. Mortal are the really bad sins and venial the lesser ones. But in our everyday lives, it can be really difficult to ...

Definition of VENIAL • Dictionary meaning of venial • Words with similar meaning as venial ...