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c. 2012 USA Today (RNS) When her 91-year-old aunt passed away in 2010, Diane DiResta videotaped the eulogies to create a record of the moving words spoken....

My church's adult Sunday school class ended up doing a six-week study of one of John Ortberg’s inspirational and easy-to-read books. A member of the class loved the book and wanted to share and teach it—and who can argue with six weeks off as a teacher? Before that, we’d been through many of N.T. Wright’s “For Everyone” study guides, and we'd organized a successful unit on Islam and Christianity, taught well by an instructor from our county college. We’ve read Adam Hamilton; we've added online conversation to our Lenten study. Now what?

This video is fairly terrifying: what if someone finally figured out how to make our consciousness functionally immortal by uploading it into an artificial body after we died? And then...set to work monetizing this innovation?

New today from the Century: Orthodoxy in East Africa, why to read Moby-Dick, more.

The title of Nathaniel Philbrick’s slim new meditation foregrounds the questions at the heart of every assignment made by every English teacher: Why read this book? Or that book? For that matter, why do we assign reading in the first place?

In a place where the religious other quite recently meant the invading army that killed your father, Pontanima's work is remarkable.

Near the end of serving my last church, I helped a family bury their 44-year old brother. But he was also son, husband, father, and grandfather. Let’s call him Sam. One of eight children, Sam met and married his wife when they were teenagers. Soon, they gave birth to two daughters. And the daughters had children. Many at the funeral were under 50, and quite a few were parents with kids. Throughout the service there were bursts of giggles and sudden loud cries. For the children, a sanctuary was unfamiliar, even unsettling.

New today from the Century: An interfaith choir in Bosnia, remembering Doc Watson, more.

When I was growing up, there was a lot of music in my house—mostly choral music, jazz standards, showtunes, CCM, and praise a...

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Geneva (ENInews)--The World Council of Churches joined the international community in condemning the massacre of at least 108 people, including 49 children, on May 25 in the villages of Taldou and ...

c. 2012 Religion News Service CLEVELAND (RNS) Catholics around the U.S....

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) The Vatican's No. 3 official on Tuesday (May 29) condemned the theft and publication of secret papal documents as an "immoral act of unheard-of gravity." ...

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Though comprehensive sex ed is effective, fear of controversy keeps many schools from implementing it. But support may be gaining ground.

(ENInews)--American pop star Lady Gaga cancelled a scheduled June 3 show in Indonesia after religious authorities threatened violence over her risque outfits and provocative dance moves. ...

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