Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill explores the 1,700-year history of the "rule of faith" in Christianity, including the Nicene Creed.

So too the Apostles’ Creed, which only says, “I believe in the Holy Spirit.” Later, at the Council of Constantinople in 381, the longer reference to the Holy Spirit was added.

Many Protestant churches recite the "Apostles' Creed," which is older and more concise than the Nicene Creed. It also is known as the "Old Roman Creed," which is believed by historians to have ...

A Lenten Taizé prayer service will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, March 10, at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Naperville. It will include a healing service for anyone in need of physical, em ...

POINTS IN THEIR SERMONS Extracts from the Remarks of Drs. Kittredge, Remensnyder, Tyler, and Eaton -- Antiquity and Essence of the Apostles' Creed. Share full article Dec. 20, 1897 ...

For most people outside Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, the “Christian right” is a group of conservative white evangelicals who were reluctant to back Trump when he won the Republican ...

The luminous mysteries show Jesus’ light in the world. Jesus is fully human and fully divine, and the mysteries we contemplate seem to give full recognition to each, through stories of Jesus ...

Although it was not literally written by the original Apostles of Jesus Christ, The Apostles’ Creed has served as a foundational document and liturgical element in Christian churches since the fourth ...

The second part of the creed was the maple-syrup harvest, a thanksgiving festival. “We had to listen for the trees to tell us when it was time.” I remember a sugaring event I attended with Anglicans ...