Throughout the stories in the Bible, numerous people are said to be "frightened," "afraid," and "gripped with fear" in the presence of angels — and it's hard to blame them. Though angels are often ...

Last week there was a frenzy about an “angel” (actually a priest) that prayed with a car-crash victim in Missouri, but are angels really who you want to help you? Professor Candida Moss on the ...

GUARDIAN angels are said to take care of us when all other help fails, but the question of their existence is a matter of fierce debate. A Bible expert has now explained why he thinks a famous ...

In the Bible, writes Lauren Green, chief religion correspondent, angels are God's messengers and ground soldiers, carrying on God's business. "They exist in a realm distinct from the universe ...

From various passages, we know that angels can take on the appearance of a bodily form, such as St. Raphael in Tobit 5. In this book, we learn some of the details behind how the disguise operates.

But my beloved “real” angel is St. Michael – a high-ranking "archangel" – among the few mentioned by name in the Bible and best-known for his “Prayer of Protection” discussed in Vol. 20.

Those beautiful white and gold angels you see on Christmas trees were originally monsters. At least, that is the claim made by scholar Esther Hamori in her book God’s Monsters. Hamori writes ...

Angels are everywhere in the Bible. The Christmas season reminds us to take them seriously. Long ago, Jacob confessed, “The Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it” (Gen. 28:16 ...