THE NEW TESTAMENT says many things about God, but only once does it offer an overall definition of God: “God is love” (I John 4:8).

I also didn’t love God because I didn’t spend time with him, and that needed to be fixed. Mind you, this has been a 40-plus-year project, and it’s been somewhat uneven to say the least, ...

Parents and country are the closest sources of our existence,’ says Aquinas, ‘and everyone is indebted first of all under God ...

“there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord ...

The film version of the musical Oliver had just been released. My junior high music teacher opened auditions for the spring show.

True love isn't about holding a mirror to yourself but lifting your eyes to heaven. It's not self-absorption but ...

I think God is as impossible to define as Love. But we still know what love is. We all believe in it. Most of us have experienced it in one way or another, hopefully many ways.

If God is love, and I’m convinced God is love, then God certainly wants all of us to live and flourish, and it breaks God’s heart every time we hurt or kill one another.

If God is love, and I’m convinced God is love, then God certainly wants all of us to live and flourish, and it breaks God’s ...

Savannah Guthrie's kids, Vale, 10, and Charley, 8, are big fans of her new children's book, "Mostly What God Does is Love You." The novel, which comes out Feb. 25, teaches kids about God's love ...

Love wants us to be better without asking us to worship It in exchange. Love asks us to respect It, not fear It. Thinking about God as if it were Love Itself connects us to the interdependent web ...