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Germany’s main Protestant church mostly gave up efforts to convert Jews in the decades following the Holocaust, and closing that chapter should have been a formality....

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Matthew's geneaology underscores that God has always worked through messy and broken families.

Churches in a place where they are the only signs of hope

To sing of Jesus Christ in Paul's terms seems strange and grandiose and a bit out of touch with the lives of ordinary people right now.

The day after the election, Lisa Sharon Harper nearly gave up the name “evangelical.”...

Self-realization is possible only in relation to a reality beyond the self.

Even if people voted for Trump for economic reasons, they ignored the consequences of their actions on the lives of others.

The pastor gave me a tract with Psalm 46 when I was 15 and hospitalized after I had overdosed.

Loving our enemies means arguing with each other about what matters most.

Of the 4,000 women gathered at the Qasr el Yahud baptism site in the Jordan River Valley, many wore white T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Women Wage Peace” in Hebrew, English, and Arabic....

When a 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Norcia, Italy, Benedict Nivakoff and the other Benedictine monks who live there escaped injury....

Leonard Cohen, a Jewish singer, songwriter, poet, and novelist most widely known for his song “Hallelujah,” died November 7 at age 82....

Before Nat Dixon preaches, he picks up his tenor saxophone and riffs a bit....

Does being a good citizen require keeping up with current events?

My friend in Germany called the night after the election. He was upset.

If Jesus being king doesn't mean that things turn out well for everyone, what does it mean?

Criticism of the slave trade from 200 years ago speaks to us today—and not just about race.

Coakley's kind of theology requires more than claims. It needs prayer.