The Apostle James has wise words that are often overlooked—if not outright ignored—by many Christians in the modern age. He tells the church, “You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be ...

Anger isn’t always a sin, and suppressing anger isn’t always a virtue. A few months ago, my elementary-age sons insisted Jesus had sinned: “He wasn’t perfect, Mom. Remember how he got angry in the ...

The concept of sin is a hard sell to atheists and agnostics alike. But one set of sins—the seven deadly sins—has entered the collective consciousness regardless of belief. The origins of the seven ...

The Seven Deadly Sins: AngerThe collection of vices known as the Seven Deadly Sins were thought to take one's thoughts away from God, and lead to further sin. We continue our series by looking at one ...

What was the last sin you committed? The Bible describes “sin” as a transgression of the law of God (1 John 3:4) and rebellion against God (Deuteronomy 9:7; Joshua 1:18). Each impulse persists into ...

Seven were the sins—pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth —that the early Christian theologians labeled capital, or deadly, on the ground that they led to the commission of other ...

Anger’s in there somewhere, sure, a kind of generalized psychic road rage, but not enough of it to qualify. Same with envy, pride, gluttony, lust—just floating shards. Avarice? Nah. Of the seven, ...

The medieval philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas said that those guilty of the sin of envy take "pleasure at another's misfortune." Italian writer Dante characterized the envious as "sinners [who] have ...

In 1986 filmmaker Maxi Cohen was one of seven women filmmakers commissioned by German television to interpret the Seven Deadly Sins She was given the sin of anger and began by putting an advertisement ...

The concept of sin is a hard sell to atheists and agnostics alike. But one set of sins—the seven deadly sins—has entered the collective consciousness regardless of belief. The origins of the seven ...