My giddo (Lebanese for grandfather) was a documented genius, a history professor and had a photographic memory.

Many say they want a world without Christianity, but many secular thinkers are discovering they should be careful what they wish for

One of the popular topics that readers contact me about are concerns associated with food shortages and higher costs.

Prayer is a familiar word that we hear every day and is usually associated with something being wrong and needing to be fixed.

In March, online magazine Vox ran a series of stories under the title "America's Struggle for Forgiveness."

Some churches are, I suppose, utterly worthy of the epithets "toxic" and even "cultic."

After years of planning and construction, Chattanooga's Hindu community has a new space to worship and gather.

Chattanooga's Christian faithful gathered outside the Hamilton County Courthouse on Thursday afternoon as part of the National Day of Prayer.

As a third-generation head of Wingfield Scale Co., Joseph Wingfield has helped grow the 85-year-old industrial and mining weighing business with new technologies and markets.

Even as a young adult, Shannen Dee Williams – who grew up Black and Catholic in Memphis, Tennessee – knew of only one Black nun, and a fake one at that: Sister Mary Clarence, as played by Whoopi Goldberg in the comic film "Sister Act."

Fielding Atchley Jr. was born into a church in 1948 that neither of his parents had grown up attending. His father's parents played critical roles in founding Red Bank Baptist Church and Red Bank Church of Christ. His mother was a Methodist woman from Texas.

It never occurred to me that I would one day be writing a column whose first line contained the words, "I really admire the guy that robbed us," and yet here it is.

America's teens are not all right.

It's easy to mock and be critical, and unfortunately our human nature loves to judge unfairly and display negative thoughts about others.

At the end of March, the Associates for Biblical Research published a curse.

I admit I am an emotional person. It's not uncommon for me to shed a tear when I witness something that moves my soul.

To say that they were from opposite sides of the tracks would be an understatement as big as the worldwide flood they both grew up believing.

The Church Voter Guides project published a Spanish version this week, an extension of efforts to mobilize local congregations to be more active in and informed about local elections.

A religious event scheduled at the Chattanooga Convention Center for the end of May was canceled following pushback from the public and a declaration from the Diocese of Knoxville temporarily barring the three speakers from teaching or otherwise representing the Catholic faith in the diocese.

There were a few items left on Ricky Taylor's checklist as of Wednesday afternoon — connect the drum system and keyboard to the sound system, finish the youth rooms.

It may come as a surprise to some that a person rising from the dead was a more common occurrence in Bible days than a deaf person being healed.

April is the month of new beginnings when trees begin to sprout their leaves and flowers emerge from the ground to express their beauty.

Most Christians consider Easter to be a sacred and joyous celebration of Christ's Resurrection.