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“Well. The good news is that you did well on your tests. Your grades are way above what we require. Your IQ is very high,” the advisor began....

If you want to filter your/your child's movie viewing through some fairly granular rules about sex, nudity and profanity, the Motion Picture Assocation of America's rating system is your friend....

c. 2012 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI ended his three-day visit to Cuba on Wednesday (March 28) with an appeal for more religious freedom for the...

c. 2012 USA Today SEYMOUR, Ind. (RNS) Food pantry volunteer Shirley Sears patiently walked a young woman through a series of questions on an application for emergency...

c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) If you're searching for the most religious Americans,...

New York (ENInews)--The Dalai Lama, already a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is the recipient of the 2012 Templeton Prize, often called the most prestigious award in religion....

Stand-your-ground laws reflect our culture's belief that violence is not a last resort--it’s a way to proactively promote security.

They are called "clergy killers"—congregations in which a small group of members are so disruptive that no pastor is able to maintain spiritual leadership for long....

As a graduate student, my father visited the Abbey of Gethsemani. His experiences there entered him in some permanent way.

The Mitt Romney who is on the campaign trail is often depicted as wealthy, wooden and out of touch with the working class....

So, who's playing politics with reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act? Sen. Schumer and the Democrats, or Sen. Grassley and the Republicans? Well, probably both. Yes, Democracts would love to bolster the narrative that Republicans don't care about women, even though Grassley et al. object to new provisions added to the VAWA, not the existing law. And yes, by threatening the whole bill based on objections to small parts of it, some Senate Republicans (not all of them) reveal that while they may in general favor services for domestic violence victims, it's not exactly a top priority to them. Of course both Senators Chuck are playing politics. That's their game, especially in leap years.

New today from the Century: Stand-your-ground laws, monkish ways, more.

Must we lose monastic communities before we realize how profound their presence is in our lives?

Over ten years ago Andrew Walls, the renowned historian and mission theologian, with whom I was studying at Princeton Theological Seminary, mentioned that one of his students had begun researching ...

Is the United Methodist Church an American denomination with extensions overseas? Or is it a worldwide communion?

c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The recession and a sluggish recovery have made for a lighter...

c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) One of two new members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has Muslim civil rights groups crying foul....

c. 2012 Religion News Service LONDON (RNS) With the Anglican Covenant aimed at ensuring its unity now apparently in ashes and the archbishop of Canterbury who backed it on his way...

I know some people who refuse to sit on church committees because they think it's a waste of time. I've known some church committees that...

It is tempting to think of the Upper Room scene in the Gospels’ passion narratives as a dreamy, candle-lit fellowship meal rather than, as ...