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The print version of the Century's recent feature on spiritual direction included an annotated book list, which I compiled based on recommendations from three professors in the discipline.

The Lens at the New York Times has a fascinating collection of images entitled “Iconic Scenes, Revisited and Reimagined.” Here are famous photos, but without the thing that made them famous.

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Steele, a reporter and columnist for the Guardian newspaper, has covered Afghan­istan since the former Soviet Union's occupation in the 1980s....

Following doesn't command the interest that leading does. But following is crucial.

c. 2012 USA Today (RNS) When Ben Helton signed up for an online dating service, under "religion" he called himself "spiritually apathetic." ...

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) If kids brought home grades like this, they'd be grounded. ...

As the year 2012 unfolds, more than three-quarters of Americans identify themselves as Christian, Gallup re­ports....

A Reformed Church in America minister, fired seven years ago as president of an RCA seminary for presiding over his lesbian daughter's same-sex wedding and defrocked by delegates of the 2005 RCA An...

Among the casualties of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti two years ago this month was Holy Trinity Cathedral in downtown Port-au-Prince....

After Muslim militants bombed a Nigerian church over the Christmas weekend, northern Nigerian Christians say they will fight to defend themselves against a possible religious war in Africa's most p...

I confess to being a skeptic when I first read the reports about a toxic sexual culture on campus. Arkansas State is a long way from elite East Coast colleges....

A recent spate of campus controversies involving professors who made provocative statements about Muslims shows one of two things: a...

What are supply clergy? Are they merely ordained persons who are authorized to use the costume, magic words and hand motions needed to legitimize  an hour of worship while the life of the congregation goes along without them quite well, thank you very much?

It's rare for me to disagree with Mark Silk and rarer still for me to agree with Erick Erickson....

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Slogans are necessary, Jenson says, both for practical reasons (we need shortcuts in arguments) and rhetorical ones (we need vivid ways of summing up a position). But problems arise when slogans become "untethered from the complex of ideas and practices which they once evoked."

c. 2012 Religion News Service LONDON (RNS) Christians in England and Wales are losing ground about as fast as nonbelievers are gaining it, according to a new government-sponsored poll....

c. 2012 St. Louis Post-Dispatch...

Good news for Mitt Romney: he won the New Hampshire GOP primary. Bad news for Romney: evangelicals remain reluctant to support him. Rick...