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The best gift I ever received was something I never wanted....

At a conference in Maine last month I was cast alongside Richard Dawkins, author of the best-selling The God Delusion. But we did not debate....

The man who may cast the deciding vote in the Supreme Court's first major abortion cases in six years tipped his hand little during oral arguments early this month....

There they all stood, gaping at the blinding wonder of the temple wall and thinking about how magnificent it was. That is, until Jesus stunned the group by blurting out, "Not one stone will be left here upon another; all will be thrown down."

While there is no royal family in the American political system, the political stars of our time exert royal power. We are very much the heirs of others who loved royalty—such as the elders of Israel who begged Samuel to appoint a king to govern them so they would be like all the other nations. But kingly rule does not come without cost.

In the 1900 Olympic games, Frank Jarvis won the gold medal in the 100 meter dash with a time of 11 seconds. He was a full second faster than the gold medal time of the previous Olympics....

Many Christians’ image of a labor leader is of a Jimmy Hoffa–like cigar-chomping political boss—a figure as morally suspect as the industry captains labor tangles with....

David Kuo's Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction is the rare political tell-all that is actually better than its pre-release quotes suggest....

In their 2001 book Divided By Faith, Michael Emerson and Christian Smith developed a theory to explain ...

Karl Barth’s theology grew out of the task of preaching, and he always kept that task in view....

The year 1998 had the highest average global temperature on record, 2002 had the second highest, 2001 was third an...

Mercadante, a professor of theology at Methodist Theological Seminary in Ohio, grew up in an Italian Catholic...

In director Todd Field’s Little Children, adapted from Tom Perrotta’s best-selling novel, Kate Winslet plays Sarah, an intelligent, expensively educated woman who is raising a preschool daug...

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It is conventional wisdom that ministers hate stewardship season and dislike talking about money....

The elusive middle ground on abortion took concrete shape in September....

First Pluto, now limbo: The Catholic concept of limbo is about to be put out of business. Pope Benedict XVI is expected to disavow the place where unbaptized babies and those who lived before the time of Christ were thought to live for all eternity—on the limbus of heaven; that is, on its border, according to speculation by St. Augustine (Philadelphia Inquirer, October 6).

The blood was barely dry on the floor of the West Nickel Mines School when Amish parents sent words of forgiveness to the family of the one who had slain their children. Forgiveness? Forgiveness so quickly for the heinous crime of killing five Amish schoolgirls? How could the Amish forgive such a thing so quickly? Was it a genuine gesture or just a gimmick?

When I visited the Cathedral of the Icon of Kazan in St....

Hispanic Methodists in northern Illinois do not often receive national press coverage. But since one of their number, Elvira Arellano, took refuge from U.S....