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“Take and eat,” Jesus said, passing the bread around. And everybody did—except for Philip, who went away hungry, for he was allergic to gluten.

While this blog has been on paternity leave, other people have continued to say things. To wit:...

Though action-packed, Peter Jackson's Hobbit films have less of what made his Lord of the Rings movies work: character development, humor, interior drama.

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c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) Every time he goes to the doctor’s office, Daniel Eddinger takes a leap of faith....

Growing up in small-town Georgia, John B....

Cremation is forbidden in traditional Islam and Judaism but accepted by most other religions....

Ian Barbour, who died at 90 in Northfield, Minnesota, where he taught for 30 years at Carleton College, was widely lauded for his pioneering role in bridging religion and science....

In religious terms, the emerging South Africa looks at once thoroughly African and surprisingly European.

An interim ministry position is a funny gig. The Interim is not called but hired. S/he is not installed, not permanent, and often not paid as much as the “permanent” (or “settled”) pastor. I knew early on that interim work is viewed as a second-tier career track when a guy at a nursing home said, “You’re a pretty good preacher. I’ll bet you could be a real minister.” I didn’t bother to tell him I’ve been a “real minister” for 25 years.

Last Thursday's David Brooks column is a classic of the genre: moderate in rhetoric, conventionally c...

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Conservative Protestants residing in red states have high divorce rates, surveys have shown, but a newly published study finds that not-so-religious couples in their communities are splitting up ne...

I don't much like the days and weeks after Christmas. Christmas takes so long to get here, with preparations and anticipation building from mid-November on. And then, sometime during the day of December 25, it all collapses.

The frankincense gift needs to be taped back together. So does the stable wall.

If you know about only one event in American Indian history, it’s probably Custer’s Last Stand at the Little Bighorn in 1876. Lakota and Cheyenne Indians repelled Custer’s surprise attack, killing more than 250 American soldiers. If you know any other event, it’s probably the massacre at Wounded Knee in late December 1890.

We will not fear even if the very foundations of the earth are shaken. So says the psalmist. Rarely do I live as though it were true. I wonder how many people do.

The frankincense gift needs to be taped back together. So does the stable wall.

My college years resonated with Micah’s challenge to Judaean society to “do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God.” I heard this challenge on the lips of Martin Luther King Jr....

Weeks after Pentecostals met in Malaysia, Christians from around the globe arrived in Korea. The gatherings represented very different groups.