Q: In the prayer the Apostles’ Creed, why does it say Jesus “descended into hell” after he was crucified, died and was buried? Some believe that hell is a place where a person will go when he or she ...

Those lyrics, from the third verse of Samuel John Stone’s “Church’s One Foundation,” written in 1866 to rebut heresies about biblical inspiration then ripping through the Church of England, have a ...

Discipleship and disciplines: during the past 50 years these two words have expressed for many of us the quintessence of following Christ. We have come especially to associate “discipleship” with ...

Irenaeus and Tertullian in the very early Christian church talk about a “regula fidei,” a “rule of faith,” which was a statement of common belief the community could use to explain to new folk what ...

How a 1,700-year-old document has the power to define not only the Christian faith but also the individual life of a practicing Christian. In our 2025 political environment, terms like evangelical ...

In Dorothy Sayers’s imaginative play, The Emperor Constantine, the defining role of the Nicene creed is put into words when Constantine criticizes a group of bishops for their indecisiveness: “Our ...

For Unitarians (71,419 members) and Universalists (44,349 members), formal creeds have long been an abomination: in matters of faith, every-conscience-for itself is the accepted rule. But last week it ...