Dismas’ endurance beyond Jesus’ death is what makes him a companion to the long-suffering. He has gone before those for whom, whether by age or chronic illness, every breath is a burden. Dismas is a ...

In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the ...

Hope is at the heart of the Easter story, says Presbyterian Moderator Dr Richard Murray ...

COMMENTARY: The fifth word from the cross points to Christ’s real bodily suffering — and his divine thirst for our salvation — as foretold in Scripture and confessed in the Creed.