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The Episcopal Church bishops, waiting for the shoe to drop in London, ended their fall meeting expressing confidence that “our household of faith is large enough to embrace us all” despite acknowle...

On a recent Sunday Iraqi Christians flocked to the Latin Catholic church in the Hashmi district of Amman, a drab working-class area in the Jordanian capital, where they joined in a mass in the anci...

The National Council of Churches has applauded an agreement unionizing foreign farmworkers who pick cucumbers sold by the Mt....

In the face of public backlash throughout North America, Louis-iana-based televangelist Jimmy Swaggart said he regrets telling his congregation at a televised worship service that if ...

A few months ago I participated in a Building Bridges Seminar, one of the annual encounters between Muslim and Christian theologians sponsored by Lambeth Palace....

CBS television has had a bad year....

On September 19, 1896, Martin Marty (no relation), brother of Martin Marty (no relation), died. His remains were reburied on September 19 of this year. The first burial took place in St....

The first time I heard the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector was as a small child attending vacation Bible school at Pond Fork Baptist Church. I remember the end of the little curtained balcony where our class was held, sunlight coming into our room rejoicing through a dusty window, the buzzing of insects in the July fields outside, a flannel board with figures stuck on it, and best of all, the anticipation of a story, followed by Kool-Aid and cookies.

Jane Hirshfield has made her home in northern California for almost 30 years--plenty of time for a redwood tree to reach for her open window....

I knew the tale of Zacchaeus as we’ve all heard it—a short bad man climbs a sycamore tree to get a glimpse of Jesus—until I heard Charlie Cook preach on it one Sunday in the mid-’70s. Charlie was a short good man, and one of the most extraordinary pastors I have ever known.

In the shadowy world of the mystery novel, nothing is ever quite what it appears to be...

Meyer is among the most respected New Testament scholars of the past half-century, and this collection will ...

In one of the most important studies now available for exploring the modern world expansion of Christianity, J. D. Y....

This volume collects prayers with which, over 42 years, famed Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann began his cl...

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The homogeneity of modernity—with its Wal-Marts, Lowe’s stores and Advance Auto Parts—is marking the South....

Allen Guelzo’s book leads us into contested territory....

Anyone who teaches at a secular university knows that today’s students are far more likely to know the name of a Hi...

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