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New today from the Century: A church upcycles glass, spring training stories, more.

Christian Wiman and Don Share have put together a memorable collection of poetry drawn from Poetry magazine’s venerable history....

On a crisp winter morning, I took a walk in the sparkling snow covering our small farm. Soon four beehives beckoned.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) In his final public address, Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday (Feb....

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The National Council of Churches, long strapped for cash, is leaving its costly digs in Manhattan and consolidating with a slimmer staff in a Washington, D.C., office within walking distance of two...

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, the surprising choice cast a pall over the liberal wing of the flock and left conservatives giddy with the prospect of total vi...

Legal advice trumped church teaching when a Catholic hospital in Colorado tried to defend itself in a wrongful death lawsuit by claiming that twin fetuses who died at the hospital in 2006, along wi...

After nearly two years of delay, Canada has finally named its ambassador for the Office of Religious Freedom....

A bronze statue of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks was recently unveiled at the U.S. Capitol on a day for members of her African Methodist Episcopal Church to celebrate one of their own....

How has the "myth of the model minority" affected the lives and work of Asian-American women? How is the myth used in our society? Please join Derrick Weston and I as we talk with Mihee Kim-Kort about her book Making Paper Cranes.

So it’s looking unlikely that Washington will do anything to prevent the sequester, the automatic spending cuts put in place to try to force Washington to find a way forward on spending, from starting to take effect tomorrow. The president and congressional leaders will meet tomorrow to discuss next steps. Hardly anyone likes the sequester—it was designed to be disliked—but no one has the right combination of power and incentives to simply repeal it, either.

New today from the Century: The winter life of bees, the sequester and other ridiculous things, more.

Filmmakers often defend cinematic violence by drawing a line between entertainment and the real world. But this devalues their work.

This new blog feature harnesses the expertise of American religious historians who care about the cities of God and the cities of humans. It’s a space where scholarly expertise collides with the faith, hope and love of those of us who seek thoughtful reflection about our pasts to bear upon the confusing issues of our presents.

If you haven’t realized the urgent need for an expanded Violence Against Women Act, read today’s New York Times, where novelist Louise Erdrich restates the theme that runs through her powerful novel The Round House (reviewed in a previous post): Native American women are being battered and raped by non-native men, and they have no legal support for pursuing justice—because non-natives are immune from prosecution by tribal courts.

New today from the Century: Rodney Clapp on violence in movies, new blog feature by American religious historians, more.

A conference at Georgetown University in Washington this week focused on cleaning up what many Americans consider a dirty word – secularism....

The biggest worry for most "American Idol" contestants is whether the judges will let them continue to the next round....