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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 ...

New today (and yesterday) from the Century: Marilynne Robinson on the Easter Sunday gospel, Robert Harman on United Methodist identity, more.

c. 2012 Religion News Service TORONTO (RNS) A new poll shows that more than half of all Canadians distrust Muslims....

c. 2012 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) Tim Tebow is Howdy Doody in a helmet. No, he is Opie Taylor...

c. 2012 Religion News Service MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (RNS) The men burst into the church classroom and ordered the 15 teens in the youth group to the floor....

c. 2012 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Cuba on Monday (March 26),...

(ENInews)--Although the Internet video "Kony 2012" is bringing world attention to an infamous Ugandan warlord, calling for his arrest this year, it...

The risen Christ does not rebuke Mary for her error. He seems rather to enjoy the occasion of her surprise.

Unco is short for Unconference. It’s specifically designed for discussions on the future of the church. It’s a percolator for new ministries and ideas, usually within mainline contexts. 

Lately there has been a surge of studies variously construed as focused on "religion and violence," "the Bible and violence" or "God and violence." Most of these studies are not very helpful, for t...

Emily Scott had an idea: what if young adults got together for a weekly agape feast? Soon St. Lydia’s was born--but Scott was not ordained.

This week is Palm and/or Passion Sunday, and choices will vary as to the form of worship and the point at which the sermon falls. Palm Sunday, with its palms waving and salutations sung to the Savior, is an event that children will enter into readily even if adults are a bit shy. If the choice is for a Passion Sunday emphasis, a dramatic reading is memorable for those who speak the parts and those who listen--and the passion narrative lends itself particularly well to this approach. It is, after all, the greatest story ever told. Another option is to focus on the second lesson.

New today (and Friday) from the Century: First-call church planters, a bookstore browser's lament, more.

Solomon is approached with a serious dilemma. The equation doesn’t seem to add up. Two mothers. One baby. In what's declared as an act of wisdom, Solomon decides to cut the baby in half to correct the equation. When threatening to do so, the truth is discovered and the baby is returned to his mother. While moderating at a recent presbytery meeting, I had a new insight into this particular story.

c. 2012 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI on Friday (March 23) urged Cuba's communist government to look for "new models" beyond its "Marxist ideology,"...

c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Behind high prison walls and rolls of barbed wire, Muslim...

c. 2012 Religion News Service WILMINGTON, N.C.(RNS) All this talk of beer was making the former seminarian thirsty....