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Discipleship and disciplines: during the past 50 years these two words have expressed for many of us the quintessence of following Christ....

The important question about youth ministry is not “Where are the kids?” or “What should we do with them when they show up?” but “What is the nature of our community?&...

For many years Stanley Hauerwas has been attempting to return the church to the center of Christian theological and ethical reflection....

These days, as some people are bent on making war and others equally determinded to keep peace, I return to my former teacher, Yehuda Amichai, a German-born Jew who migrated to Palestine and grew u...

The best storytellers paint pictures with words, using them to fill our minds with vivid imagery. I remember reading the first Harry Potter novel to my first-grade son. Each time we completed a chapter and I turned the page to start a new one he would shift in my lap and look away from the book. Finally I asked him what was wrong. He replied, “I don’t want to see the drawing on the first page of the chapter because I want to think about what things look like all by myself.”

David Bentley Hart is a convert to Eastern Orthodoxy with a recent Ph.D....

Ask your teenaged son how he is doing and you are like...

Since Christians confess Jesus Christ as Lord, one might assume that most Christian ethics texts would ponder his teaching...

How has the story of Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, which contains no explicit refere...

Seventeen-year-old Maria is a pretty Colombian girl frustrated with life in her small town....

Protestants are about to become a minority in the U.S. after almost four centuries of numerical superiority and cultural dominance....

What the 9/11 Commission accomplished is a minor miracle in this era of partisan politics....

Belated reconciliation: In 1525 Protestant Reformer Ulrich Zwingli preached against the Anabaptists, setting off persecution, exile and martyrdom of the more radical reform group....

A proposal: Let us stop fighting one another, for a season, about issues of sexuality, so that we can focus on what God is saying to the church about our complicity in the violence that is the deep...

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry of Massachusetts capped a political convention that saw Democrats emphasizing faith and moral language....

Calling the so-called “God gap” between Republicans and Democrats “a trivialization conversation,” New York clergyman James Forbes told an interfaith service in Boston during the Democratic convent...

Senator John Kerry, who carries Democratic Party hopes for the White House, said he supports government funding of faith-based initiatives as long as they respect the separation of church and state...

After less than two weeks on the job, the Democratic Party’s first-ever director of religious outreach resigned suddenly after her public positions came under fire....

Jerry Falwell is misleading churches into thinking they can endorse political candidates, two Washington-based watchdog groups warned in complaints to federal agencies....

After more than a year of debate and negotiation, Harvard Divinity School has agreed to return a gift from a leader of the United Arab Emirates, at the Arab nation’s request....