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"War killed an average of over a hundred people an hour through the 20th century,” writes Jonathan Glover....

Is she mad, or is she right? ask the authors of the mystical revelations of St. Gemma Galgani, the first woman canonized in the 20th century....

Recognition of common baptism has been fundamental to the ecumenical renewal and liturgical reform movement....

With The Shape of Things, filmmaker Neil LaBute returns to his earlier status as a "nasty piece of work." After taking a moral hiatus to direct the uneven black comedy Nurse Betty...

She's died to save the world, been resurrected, inspired love from social outcasts and forgiven (some of) her enemies....

I didn’t know Lewis Smedes very well, but I miss him....

What are the nation’s financial priorities these days, besides paying for the cost of invading and rebuilding Iraq? One clue came out of the House of Representatives in March....

The intellectuals and policymakers who want America to maintain its “unipolar” dominance in the world agreed that the U.S. needed to overthrow the Baathist regime in Iraq....

A viable two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is dying; perhaps it is already dead....

The stone box that possibly held the skeletal remains of James the brother of Jesus has continued to come under critical scrutiny....

Listening to news of the war with Iraq, I have never been more aware how much depends on people’s view of reality....

Suppose you wanted to do something big for the world mission of all Anglicans, independents, marginal Christians, Orthodox, Protestants and Roman Catholics....

The claim that Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11 was always fraudulent, but at least half of the American public believe that there is a connection....

A strange king is likely to have a strange kingdom, and the kingdom of Jesus is no exception. The kingdom of Christ is a multilateral community, marked by a deep mutual love and an ongoing push to ever greater love. Our difficulty is not in envisioning the image of community. Our trouble comes with the necessity of confronting those situations in which community is broken, or worse, in which human beings are attacking other human beings. What are the international implications of these readings?

My grandfather was a retired navy officer when he died, so we held his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery. We were greeted at the gates by armed guards. Taps played while my grandfather’s ashes were put into a horse-drawn casket. An American flag was folded and presented to my grandmother. At the funeral we saw how the military gives meaning even to death, shape even to destruction, and an idealistic aura to aggression.

If the United States and Great Britain are “two nations separated by a common language,” then perhaps Christian theologians of the two countries are “...

The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin. By Garret Keizer. Jossey-Bass, 363 pp., $22.95...

The daily accounts of the violence shattering the Holy Land make us wonder if Jerusalem's three religions will ever be able peacefully to coexist there....

Lisa Cholodenko's Laurel Canyon is a confidently made high comedy in which an uptight young man (Christian Bale) brings his fiancée (Kate Beckinsale) to live with his bohemian recor...

The ancient formula lex orandi, lex credendi might be translated: as we pray, so we believe....