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So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid....

“The secret of life is that it is a passion play.” —Holmes Rolston...

Bread and fish are not much of an Easter dinner.

Experiencing God as darkness makes determining how to walk in the light less certain than we might suspect or desire.

Late in his life, Karl Barth invited a young Catholic theologian to join his theology seminar....

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The faith-based initiative asks religious organizations to carry a heavy load....

An engineering professor from Germany who was attending my course on the Genesis debates was flabbergasted to learn that in the U.S....

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Shreve writes so well that for a while she seems able to reinvigorate the tired plot device of gathering a group of school friends for an unexpected reunion...

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.—Barry Goldwater (with thanks to Thomas Paine)...

In Chicago winter lingers well into March, like a house guest unaware that she’s worn out her welcome....

After scripture scholar Phyllis Trible lectured on the story in Judges 19 about a woman who was gang-raped, murdered and dismembered, a woman came up to Trible weeping, saying that she too had been raped, and didn’t know the Bible contained "her" story. Rather than being offended by its inclusion, the woman felt blessed by it. “You never throw away any part of the Bible,” says Trible. “You never know when . . . it will relate to a reader.”

Brazil offers a major example of the explosive growth of evangelical and Pentecostal churches taking place in the Southern Hemisphere....

The reign of terror against rural Alabama churches appears to be over....

The North American group Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) says it will continue its work in Iraq despite the murder of one of four team members abducted months earlier....

Evangelist Billy Graham seems to have closed out his 60-year career as the country’s most famous evangelist....

Birmingham-Southern College has long prided itself on the actions of students who have gone all over the world—and as far away as Mother Teresa’s mission in Calcutta—to perform good deeds as part o...

Briton John Barrow, a University of Cambridge cosmologist and mathematician whose work explores the relationship between life and the universe, as well as the nature and limits of human understandi...

The leadership of the Orthodox Church in America has ignored calls for a special audit to determine if millions of church dollars were misspent in the 1990s, but has agreed to look over the books f...