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Reading the Bible from the margins means giving precedence to the experience and interpretive voices of Africans, Asians and Latin Americans, of the nonelite, of women, of popular and indigenous re...

Midrash refers to the rabbinic tradition of interpretation that explores scripture beyond its literal meanings....

During the past three decades, moral concern about how animals are treated has proliferated in Western societies....

Until his untimely death two years ago, Marlin VanElderen was the executive editor of the publications of the World Council of Churches....

Think of a conflict between father and son, and chances are good you'll find it buried somewhere within Road to Perdition, director Sam Mendes's first film since the hugely successful, if ...

The true superiority of sexual intercourse in marriage is that it does not have to mean very much," says David Matzko McCarthy. Equally provocative is Richard R....

I have a dim recollection of Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy from a course in college....

A senior Israeli official, listening to President Bush’s June 24 speech outlining U.S. policy on the Middle East, kept waiting to hear what pressure the U.S. was going to apply to Israel....

Long before George W....

A new translation of the Bible has created a tug of words between camps in the evangelical world....

On a crisp January morning when most people were struggling with New Year’s resolutions or debating whether the Patriots would get to the Super Bowl, I was snapping my fingers to the tunes of the C...

As I write, it is morning on the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of poor people and shipwreck victims and the finder of lost objects. It is June, the month of the Sacred Heart....

Forty years ago, when my kind and I were still young enough to be licensed to write crabby books (they got reviewed as “prophetic”) about American religion, the focus often fell on the public face ...

One is not born a Christian; one becomes a Christian. This reminds me of my three-year-old friend Grace.

"Have you understood all this?" They said yes. God must still be laughing.

You could make the case that Peter Singer has done more good than anyone else alive....

Are we morally obligated to extend every life that we have the technological or medical ability to extend?...

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the Firs...

This is a very good book, but not because it brings good news. John H....

Set in 14th-century France during the time of the Inquisition against the heretics known as the Cathari, this is a story about love and obsession....