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The Christians gathered at Duke for the weekend had come from places marked by destructive ethnic and tribal violence and conflict: South Africa, Sudan, the United States, India and Rwanda....

Two portraits graced my study walls for many years: Holbein’s Erasmus and Cranach’s Luther....

I once lived in a village in Germany that lay at the foot of a mountain covered in deep forest. A narrow farm separated the houses from the forest, and a cemetery occupied a piece of land part way up the mountain. Sometimes on my daily walks I stopped at the cemetery. It was the busiest place in town.

How far had Lazarus traveled along the way of clarity, truth, and reality in those four days?

My first encounter with Christian fasting was in a Russian kitchen in the provincial city of Krasnodar in 1991....

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Evangelical Christianity is generally loquacious; Minnesota Swedes seldom are....

George Tinker brings a distinctive voice to the conversation on American Indians and Christianity and spe...

Juliette Foster, by Phil Angotti (Jam Records). Acoustic pop....

Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar’s The Sea Inside is a triumph-of-the-spirit picture with an unconventional premise: the hero, Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem), a quadriplegic f...

If I close my eyes and become quiet, I can almost remember how I used to think of preachers long ago, when I sat in the pew myself....

I loved reading in this issue about great teachers, teachers who have a way of changing lives. I found it impossible not to think about the teachers who changed me....

When President Bush spoke last month at a major antiabortion rally, he endorsed the activists’ cause but admitted that their primary goal—making abortion illegal—is not likely to be achieved anytim...

Multiple choice: In the past year Edward Hoagland has received the Eucharist from the cardinal of Milan, witnessed Mother Teresa’s beatification by the pope in Rome, held hands with a circle...

When disaster strikes, people turn to religion to help them answer two questions: Why did this happen? and What should we do about it?...

We hear about the U.S troops killed in Iraq, and we sometimes see their faces on the TV screen or staring out at us from the newspaper. The number of dead stands at about 1,442....

When my son David was born in 1967, fathers were not allowed in the delivery room. So I posted myself outside the delivery-room door and prayed....

In the 12 days between his second inaugural speech, replete with religious references, and his State of the Union address, delivered in more secular tones, President George W....

The Republican courting of black clergy, evident during the 2004 presidential campaign, has picked up the pace again, to the dismay of some Democrats....

Conservative Christian groups are outraged but not surprised, they say, that last year’s box-office hit The Passion of the Christ didn’t get an Academy Award nomination for best picture or ...