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Every Sunday, millions of Christians recite either the Apostles' or the Nicene Creed. The first evolved over several centuries and first appears in the writings of St....

Pastors need to reflect on their lives--on what they do, why they do it, and how such doing shapes a way of life. F. Dean Lueking and John Galloway Jr....

Lock up your sons and daughters, John Wesley is riding into town!...

In his delightful, informative book about the Wesleyan movement in America, Charles Ferguson characterized Meth­odists as Organized to Beat the Devil....

Dave Hurst is a dentist who shares a practice with his wife, Dana, and comes home at night to their three little girls....

A stretch of two weeks at the beach allows me to do something I’ve never able to manage during the working year: read more than one book at a time—maybe six or seven—and experience the literary and...

The case of Judge Roy S. Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has become the cause célèbre of the Christian right. He has refused to obey an order from a U.S....

Since the 9-11 terrorist attacks the U.S. State Department has sponsored a number of study programs that bring Muslim scholars from around the world to the U.S....

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s top legislative body had a full plate as it convened in Milwaukee in mid-August—major statements or initiatives on evangelism, mission, worship, health ...

I wasn’t sure what to make of Frida, a movie about the sadness, courage and indomitability that characterized the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo....

Recent findings have reopened arguments concerning when humans arrived in our hemisphere....

Dear Derek: I wrote last time that being adopted makes you different, and so, of course, in an obvious way it does....

Why does James begin by addressing teachers?

Jesus sees something the disciples do not even know they are missing.

A decade ago humanitarian interventi...

Today the Roman Catholic Church in the United States is on the verge of either an irreversible decline or a th...

It is difficult to assess the health of the current ecumenical movement....

Books on the dialogue or debate between religion and science are appearing at a rate daunting even to those who are used to working with big numbers, bringing to mind Qoheleth's claim: "Of the maki...

How will Maria nurse her starving baby? How will a burned son be healed? Will the former prostitute Aldegonde break loose from the watchful sisters with whom she has been placed?...