(RNS) — The author spoke to Religion News Service about why it’s important for people of all ages to see God as a mother and how the story of Hagar and Ishmael resonates for her.

FAITHFULLY, every Sunday, amid howls of protest, my mother took us to church. Although my brother and sister endured Sunday School, I hated it. No flannel-board Bible stories for me. “Please,… ...

HBO . Sometime between 2007—after she allegedly abandoned her children—and 2014, Dallas-born Amy Carlson decided she was the incarnation of God on Earth and began her own religion, which she ...

But Islam teaches: “The same religion was established for you as that which He (God) enjoined on Noah – which We have sent by inspiration to you – and that which We enjoined on Abraham ...

I can imagine my mother saying these words as Day did: “We cannot love God unless we love each other.” The final word is love, Day said. That’s what my mother taught me, too.

Happy Mother’s Day! We appreciate you! I am so grateful that God created moms. Mother Teresa was never a biological mom, but she taught us so much about what would help each of us to live a ...

(RNS) — Mother Mary P. Patterson, who was the widow of a Church of God in Christ presiding bishop and became known for her efforts to preserve the history of the historically Black Pentecostal ...