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David Kling is interested in how interpretations of the Bible have influenced history and how historical context has sha...

Paco Underhill, a marketing enhancer, and Michael Dawson, a critic of the capitalis...

Purporting to deliver the straight goods on modern sexual interactions, Closer is glossier than last summer’s similarly themed We Don’t Live Here Anymore, and it has a more impressive...

It is hard to be moved anymore by films about concentration camps....

By exploring the contradictions between official theologies and the actual behavior of religious communitie...

Let’s call her “Susan.” She’s a 40-something woman who works at the convenience store near our church....

Inevitably, in the course of a pastoral career, one encounters that person—the spouse of an active member, or an avid golfer—who claims not to need to attend weekly services because “I can worship God in nature.” Possible comebacks range from mild to sarcastic, but they rarely make any impression. A better question is whether the assertion is correct.

The prophet Isaiah, whose words we read in Advent, gives us wonderful images of peace and of the restoration of Zion—images of the wolf living with the lamb, of waters breaking forth out of the wil...

After the U.S....

“Hostility toward America has reached shocking levels.”—Advisory group on public diplomacy appointed by the White House...

Let me tell you about Nadia, a friend and colleague in Iraq. From May 2003 until last April she worked for a newspaper in Baghdad....

When award-winning documentary filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond set out to make The Congregation, they may have imagined they were taking a respite from the hot topics of their previous fi...

The United Church of Christ, a budget-struggling mainline denomination often confused with a similarly named church, felt that only a bold regional and national TV ad campaign costing $1.7 million ...

Pope John Paul II has proclaimed a record 1,828 saints and blesseds, more than all his predecessors over the past 400 years put together, a Vatican official reported in December....

After one of his pastors lost her ministerial license because she is openly gay, the United Methodist bishop of Philadelphia said it was time for the church to “move on in our ministry.”...

The controversy over homosexuality has consumed our agenda, our discussion time and our energy; yet the controversy still threatens to break us apart.”...

Canadian religious groups that oppose gay marriage are trying to make the best of a Supreme Court ruling that paves the way for Canada to become the third nation besides Belgium and the Netherlands...

After escaping an ouster a year ago by the Evangelical Theological Society, a leading proponent of “open theism” theology is being shown the door by trustees at Huntington (Indiana) College for his...

President Bush’s nomination of White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as attorney general will almost certainly intensify the focus on the use of torture in U.S....

A fifth Methodist body has joined an ongoing effort to foster cooperation among black and white Methodists....