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The New Africa: Dispatches from a Changing Continent by Robert Press...

Let a thousand lawsuits bloom. That’s pretty much what John DiIulio Jr. said after being selected to head President Bush’s new Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives....

Each week pastors experience exhilarating opportunities and make agonizing decisions. Often the moments of decision erupt unexpectedly. There is no time to prepare....

The emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web as a source of information, a venue for publishing, and a forum for dialogue now defines libraries nearly as much as the more familiar milieu of...

Seminaries that use computers in teaching are often tempted in one of two directions. They either oversell the importance of the technology or underutilize it....

Having worked with dozens of congregations and compared many software packages, the Indianapolis Center for Congregations can offer the following suggestions:...

Has the advent of the Internet and computer technology led congregations toward the “virtual church,” undermining the face-to-face relationships that have long characterized congregatio...

A few years ago a technology consultant told a group of seminary deans and presidents that computer-based information technology is like a fast-moving train....

Not long ago I went to visit my mother at a busy New York hospital where she was recovering from heart-valve surgery....

What did they expect when they set off with Jesus that afternoon? An intimate conversation among the four of them?...

In this ecumenical era not only churches but cultures are melding, merging, learning from one another and even transposing and trading their distinctive characteristics....

Churches with Web sites and pastors using e-mail are praising how the electronic media keeps them in touch and enriches congregational life, a recent foundation-funded study discovered....

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, by Victor Klemperer...

Ian Barbour finds four major options in the current literature on science and religion: conflict, independence, dialogue and integration....

Is the United States still "a nation with the soul of a church," as Sidney Mead once insisted? Are we still united by what Robert Bellah identified as a "civil religion"?...

President Clinton's trip to Hanoi this past November was the first state visit by a U.S. president to an independent and reunified Vietnam....

The often uninformed and partisan climate of the current dialogue about religion and public education makes this book, which provides a sane historical context for the debate, especially valuable....

Money, power, sex--there are so many ways a pastor can go wrong. What defines a "bad" pastor? How should we respond when encountering one?...

Despite Jesus's petition "that they may be one," all Christians still cannot eat and drink together at the Lord's Supper....

Anyone who has been on a faculty search committee knows how hard it is to evaluate candidates....