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I love this story about Jesus and his parents and am astonished by the author’s deep understanding of the human condition....

My family celebrates Christmas with a mix of Jesus and Santa Claus. But there is one story we don't tell.

Quite a number of people are discussing t-shirts like this one (or the wider use of the sentiment expressed on it) in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. I am glad that fundamentalists are finally being a bit more honest about what they mean by “God.”

New today from the Century: God's place in a world explained by science; the CT shooting, school prayer and the religious right's god; more.

I love this story about Jesus and his parents and am astonished by the author’s deep understanding of the human condition....

What is it about Western culture that makes it so difficult to taste God? Why would we rather prove propositions than experience the holy?

Travel along, if you dare, with Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit" – either in J.R.R.Tolkien's beloved 1937 novel, or through the first installment of Peter Jackson's film trilogy based on the book, whi...

When the Rev. Kip Banks' family pulls out its nativity scene each Christmas, the African features of the baby Jesus provide lessons on both the Bible and self-esteem....

NEWTOWN, Conn. (RNS) Dealing with the pain of the school shooting that claimed 28 lives will take faith, support and joyous Christmas celebrations, church leaders said at the first Sunday (Dec....

"Oh, God!" That cry has echoed ever since news of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn....

The shooting deaths of 26 children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school has revived religious support for gun control, galvanizing a movement that has struggled to gain traction against th...

The head of the World Council of Churches is blasting U.S. policy on Cuba for preventing a scheduled meeting of the Latin American Council of Churches in the communist island nation....

Sing us a lullaby, Rachel, the kind of lullaby that you’ve been singing across a lifetime.

It hasn’t even been six months since I quaked irrationally with fear as my husband went off with a friend to a sleepy little cinema in western Pennsylvania, weeks after the Aurora shooting....

Like many pastors, I remember clearly the first sermon I ever preached. It was during my second semester of seminary, and I probably worked on it for 50 hours. Each detail was written and rewritten until I was confident I had produced the greatest theological document by a seminarian in quite some time.

New today from the Century: Fighting for change after Newtown, the dark night of the church, more.

Luminaries praise Paula Fredriksen's Sin as gripping and magnificent. Her book on Augustine was both of these things. This one isn't.

Maybe what sociologists call mainline decline is God pulling us away from external things so we can rediscover our union with God in love.

A crime is committed at the round house, a sacred Ojibwe space on a North Dakota reservation....

I’ve been working with my graduate theological students lately on issues pertaining to open theism. A few biblical passages have played key roles in the discussion....