In a famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards once warned his fellow Americans: "The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase ...

Zahnd (Water to Wine), pastor and founder of the Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Miss., thoughtfully probes the fearful view of God and the idea that fearing God is somehow an expected behavior. He ...

Hundreds of years ago, before the birth of the science of volcanology in the 19th century, mankind looked upon volcanic eruptions as warnings or punishments from the gods. The gods were literally ...