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These days the Youngstown, Ohio, band Glass Harp is known only to a small group of classic rock scholars...

Emotionally complicated and deeply compassionate, Heading South, by the French director Laurent Cantet, approaches a delicate subject—sex tourism in Haiti in the late 1970s—with a mixture of frankn...

Someone left a beautiful blue box on the front porch of our church recently. A note on the top said "For Gordon." Inside was an elegant, blue fountain pen with gold bands, a gift from an Episcopal priest named Cristopher whom I had met in a coffee shop. We had one of those "You're a minister? Me too!" conversations that ministers often have. I noticed he was writing with a fountain pen. And since he is left-handed, there was ink smeared all over his hand.

On the heels of denominational meetings this summer, “Everything you wanted to know about Christianity" is just what I needed....

They serve us at restaurants; they trim our lawns; they clean our houses and hotel rooms; they take our money at convenience stores....

Truth in fiction: Fiction often captures a historical moment. Already a number of novels have appeared that deal with the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath: John Updike, Terrorist; Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Jay McInerney, The Good Life; and Lorraine Adams, Harbor (Chicago Tribune, July 15).

Some people in America are scared silly of Christianity, but many of the most frightened know very little about it....

President Bush exercised the first veto of his presidency to reject a bill that would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cell research....

When John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960, he was the first Catholic to seek the Oval Office....

The executive director of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund has resigned her post after prominent members of the fund’s religious advisory committee quit and harshly criticized the manner in which the ...

Christian leaders representing millions of Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and Catholic faithful, along with councils of churches, are calling for an end to the large-scale violence in Lebanon and I...

A Bush administration recommendation that the United States should further limit humanitarian and religious aid to Cuba is contrary to religious freedom, say many U.S....

A top treasury official of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was fired after she admitted to embezzlement, denomination executives have announced....

German Protestant Jürgen Moltmann was declared the greatest theologian of the 20th century in the finals of the Systematic Theology World Cup, conducted on the Internet while the world’s top soccer...

When Amanda Adams was growing up, she considered a number of professions: doctor, nurse, writer, teacher, psychologist and bareback rider....

In his first full response to a high-level proposal to divide the worldwide Anglican Communion into voting and nonvoting camps, the top leader of the Episcopal Church has said it “raises serious qu...

Ralph Reed, former director of the Christian Coalition, who was attempting to launch a political career, lost his bid last month in the Georgia Republican primary election for nominat...

"I have a philosophy about life,” a friend said recently. “The world would be a much better place if people took a moment to let people know about the positive impact they have had on others’ lives. Too much time is spent on negativity. The good in people simply isn’t recognized; too often it is taken for granted.”

A human rights lawyer, Ralston Deffenbaugh has since 1991 been president of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, an agency of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America...