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"Just where did Adbusters get its defining philosophy? Why was it always so obsessed with ads and consumerism, while hard...

Friday's food stamps cut is simply the end of a temporary increase. That’s a small comfort for struggling Americans whose tight grocery budgets just got tighter.

Does it preach? That’s the question sometimes asked of theology by people who believe it should be an ecclesial, rather than just an academic, discipline....

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When Jennifer Pedersen-Giles started to homeschool her son Westen six years ago, it was because he needed a more hands-on environment than what public schools could offer....

We are instructed to love our enemies—not necessarily to forgive them.

The New Yorker recently published excerpts from Flannery O’Connor’s youthful ...

Not everything that I encounter in my exploration of a text makes its way into a sermon, and recently, one particular "remainder" stuck with me. ...

New today from the Century: Nicholas Wolterstorff on injustice and forgiveness, LaVonne Neff reviews Elizabeth Bradley and Lauren Taylor, more.

Elizabeth Bradley and Lauren Taylor may have written one of the three most important books your member of Congress will never read.

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Between 2006 and 2010, Christians faced some form of discrimination in 139 countries—almost three-fourths of the world's nations.

Every year, Unco is a good gauge to find out what’s exciting and difficult about being an innovative church leader. Here are ten things that I gleaned from our recent gathering.

New today from the Century: The editors on persecuted Christians around the world, Yolanda Pierce on slavery and religious rhetoric, more.

The 1853 slave narrative Twelve Years a Slave is now a major motion picture directed by Steve McQueen. The film is a faithful rendering of the life of Solomon Northup, a free African American man who is sold into chattel bondage and brutally enslaved. Northup’s life story highlights one of the little-known facets of American slavery: the dangers that free black people faced during the antebellum era, with little legal recourse if they were cheated, harmed, brutalized or even sold into slavery. Northup was eventually freed. But there were countless others whose names we cannot know.

A gay Christian with a compelling personal story, Jeff Chu is also a superb journalist who listens closely to whoever is sitting across from him.

When I was a new pastor I imagined that I was breaking new ground, doing things differently than older colleagues....

The Public Religion Research Insti­tute’s annual American Values Survey, released October 29, examines libertarians to try to “pin down a group that doesn’t fit on the traditional liberal-to-co...

Air Force Academy cadets will no longer be required to say the words “so help me God” when taking their annual honor oath....