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(The Christian Science Monitor) Late last month, the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, passed a series of laws that restricted where organiza...

Are our days of destruction the "day of the Lord"?

(The Christian Science Monitor) With sectarian tensions soaring across the Middle East, Hezbollah's leader has used the Shi‘ite commemoration...

"If I walk into the room of a patient dying in faith, hope, and love, I feel I need to take my shoes off. It is that holy."

(The Christian Science Monitor) The decision by Brittany Maynard—a 29-year-old who had received a terminal brain cancer diagnosis—to...

My travels have allowed me to look at new church movements from the view of a seminary, practitioners, and denominational leadership.

As a blogger, I mostly stay away from politics. That’s because I usually think that discussing affairs of state takes away from the message of the gospel....

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(The Christian Science Monitor) Yesterday Moshe Feiglin walked on the holiest site in Judaism and posed for photos in front of the Dome of th...

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c. 2014 Religion News Service ST. CHARLES, Missouri (RNS) The first time the public heard the name Renita Lamkin was probably the day she was shot....

In 1991, 15 percent of La Crosse residents had an advance care plan. Local health-care leaders set a goal: increase this to 50 percent.

In June 2012, my Uncle David died. Years of diabetes caused his body to wear out. He was 60 years old. For my mother, who was 20 years David's senior, the news was devastating. She was supposed to be the one who died first, not her baby brother.

Hope is the name of one of the waitresses at my favorite café....

Income disparity is likely to keep getting worse, eventually undermining the viability of democratic capitalism. This stark message has made Thomas Piketty's book the object of much scrutiny.

I had a great time with an engaging group of Christian educators and pastors in Austin last week, leading a workshop on Spirituali...

"Incidentally, 'sex and marriage, divorce and homosexuality' are hardly the major areas where Pope Francis has emphasized tensions be...

Bruce Dancis is keenly intelligent, soft-spoken, and possessed of a quiet dignity. So is his new memoir of his time as a draft resister.

c. 2014 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis says Judas Iscariot was not the only sinner among the 12 apostles but he was the one who “closed himself to love.”...