— Editor’s Note: Symbols of Faith is a new series in The Woodlands Villager exploring the symbols and icons associated with the various religious faiths found across the community.

The symbol of the comma reminds us that God is not done with us yet. The symbol of the comma, which in a sentence is a moment of pause, reminds us to stop, if only briefly, to listen for God.

God is a metaphor. Or so goes a particular line of thought, as it struggles to make the idea of God meaningful. Metaphors, after all, are symbols used to obliquely describe a deeper reality, to give a ...

In our life together as the God Squad, Father Tom Hartman and I faced this issue for almost 30 years. I can sum up what we learned in five words: offer but do not impose. If displays are intended ...

It wasn’t God they had lost confidence in, but Moses, God’s representative in their midst. He had been gone almost 40 days and 40 nights.

The sunrise is the perfect symbol for God’s intervention into our world. When John the Baptist was born his father understood the importance of his son’s birth.

When these are gone, the symbols he uses will be emptied of their power, and God will truly be dead for him. New symbols may emerge, but they will not be the symbols of New Testament faith.

Hail is a symbol of God’s universal wrath in Revelation (16:21), but also in Revelation of his ultimate victory (8:7, 11:19), and in Psalms of his glory and majesty (18:12-13; 148:8).

In our life together as the God Squad, Father Tom Hartman and I faced this issue for almost 30 years. I can sum up what we learned in five words: Offer but do not impose. If displays are intended ...

In our life together as the God Squad, Father Tom Hartman and I faced this issue for almost 30 years. I can sum up what we learned in five words: offer but do not impose.