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I once told a story from the pulpit about road rage that evoked as much response as anything I have ever said....

It’s a painful irony: congregations in mainline churches—which have long made racial reconciliation one of their highest priorities—are no more racially integrated than other chur...

When Rodney Woo became pastor of Wilcrest Baptist Church in Houston in 1992, the all-white congregation averaged 200 worshipers....

In the early 16th century, Martin Luther, assisted by enterprising printers unhandicapped by copyright laws, swamped the market with five pamphlets for every one put out by his Catholic opponents....

The woman sitting next to me on a five-hour bus ride from Puebla to Oaxaca, Mexico, opened her Bible to the “Segunda Epístola de San Pedro Apóstol”—2 Peter....

Mexico’s popular culture is Catholic, but its politics and state are secular....

It may seem odd that at the beginning of the 21st century our lives are so pervasively dominated by rules, big rules and small rules, rules that frame our interactions and rules that enter into the...

Wife Harriet claims to be able to tell whether we are at a meeting of the American Historical Association or the American Academy of Religion by looking at the kinds of tweed jackets men are wearin...

Recently some huge billboards along British Columbia’s major roadways showed black-and-white photos of car wrecks—gashed and mangled metal, clouds of steam and smoke—all illumined under the luridne...

Some grow in their faith by imitating the faithful. Some enhance their faith through study. But today’s lessons suggest that faith involves discovery....

Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art by Deborah Silverman...

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood may be most familiar to religious audiences for her 1986 novel The Handmaid's Tale, which satirizes the religious hypocrisy of the right, the political pret...

Only a generation ago the settled opinion was that work would soon occupy fewer and fewer of our waking hours....

Jesse Jackson is a complicated man. He has been right on most issues most of the time, though certainly not all the time....

Last month two fertility specialists, an American and an Italian, announced plans to clone a human being in the next two years....

After a large Sunday dinner, family and friends gathered in the living room of my grandmother’s rambling house for the event that made me a Christian....

Despite a mounting body of research showing that high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births pose serious threats to the well-being of children, mainline Protestantism has had remarkably little...

The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier and Better Off Financially, by Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher ...

The parable of the Prodigal Son is often used to illustrate the gracious and steadfast nature of God’s love....

I have always envied people with a spectacular sense of call. I once had a job that involved reading applications for admission to a Methodist seminary....