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One of the things I love about the liturgical life of the church is the way that the Holy Spirit, quietly and gently, works on us....

They were no angels. Whatever else they did or didn’t do, or hoped to do, they hired strippers....

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On the morning of October 10, 2006, a 33-year-old ...

If social democracy is ever again to be taken seriously in this country, its proponents have to admit that much of th...

In the present confusion over religion and public life—and the accompanying opportunism—the life and car...

Two stories run through this book....

Christians can be quite good at feeling guilty....

If Abe Lincoln were to once again borrow from Jesus—but for C-SPAN’s cameras—he might say, “A house divided again...

Fashioned from a book by Jon Krakauer, Sean Penn’s Into the Wild is an elegiac film about Christopher Johnson McCandless, who, upon graduating from Emory University in 1990, set out, without...

During almost 20 years of pastoral ministry I have served three different congregations that experienced such long-term decline and loss that it seemed as if the “end of the world” was upon us: the...

My wife and I were in the Atlanta airport this summer when she stopped at a newsstand to pick up a magazine....

The Chicago Cubs have done it again. After winning the National League’s central division, they were swept aside by the Arizona Diamondbacks....

When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran visited Columbia University, he was introduced as a “a petty and cruel dictator” by his host, the school’s president, Lee Bollinger....

Back to your roots: EcoEternity is offering a green form of burial: for a price the company will place a person’s remains in a biodegradable urn and plant it beside a mature tree. In time, the remains will be soaked up by the tree’s root system.

The weekly death tolls in Iraq have recently decreased—for four reasons: The U.S....

From 1995-2005, 2 million child soldiers were killed and 6 million permanently disabled or injured. An estimated 300,000 children (younger than 18) are currently serving as soldiers. Some have joined voluntarily out of economic desperation or for their own safety; others have been forcibly recruited by rebel forces. Still others have been by recruited by recognized sovereign governments—and eight of the nine such governments receive military assistance from the U.S.

If ecumenical veteran Michael Kinnamon is ratified next month, as expected, to be the top executive of the National Council of Churches, look for a stylistic shift on social justice issues and appe...

A British church safety group is advising clergy—from the archbishop of Canterbury on down—to reduce the risk of being attacked by taking off their clerical collars when they go out while off duty....

Joining protest with prayer, the head of the United Church of Christ was arrested October 10 outside the White House while attempting to deliver to President Bush a pastoral letter condemning the I...