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The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania reports that "Victim One," the first of for...

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Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about.

In Justice in Love, Nicholas Wolterstorff rejects egoism, eudaemonism and utilitarianism as inadequate ways to think about the practice of well-being.

On Sundays, my mother stayed home and read the paper. Yet she insisted that we kids go to church.

Patience is not one of my virtues, as those closest to me know. I want answers now, clarity now, unresolved issues settled now, anxiety lifted now.

I’m in a lot of conversations about why the denominational church isn’t working. But what about the communities that are ministering well? What about new communities?

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Once upon a time—and not long ago—there was another Europe. The religious story of communist Europe, in which Christians suffered horrific persecutions, is forgotten by most Americans today.

(ENInews)--As legislators in Uganda prepare to re-open debate on a bill that would harshly punish homosexuals, a church leader who campaigns for gay rights has renewed his call for tolerance and co...

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) Say the word "interfaith" and the next word to roll off the tongue is probably "dialogue." It's hard to think of one without the other....

(RNS) The cash-strapped Crystal Cathedral's pending transformation from a Protestant megachurch to a Roman Catholic cathedral should teach pastors not to spend millions on ornate buildings, a megac...

A couple issues ago the Century ran an article by Matt Fitzgerald of Wellesley Hills UCC in Massachusetts, a church approached by a movie studio that needed a space rental to shoot an upcoming Adam Sandler movie.

If you want to read interesting on-the-ground reporting on the Occupy movement, you could do a lot worse than following Ezra Silk....

I was doing some research at the public library the other day, paging through LIFE magazines from 1970. Ecology—as in acid rain, etc.—was an issue of...

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Martha Nussbaum's perspective cuts to the heart of our tendency to exclude others when they fail to live up to expectations about how "good people" should be.

Take Shelter deals with the end of the world in a creepier and even more meta­phoric manner than von Trier's Melan­cholia.

Mercy Seat spends about $27,000 a year on the arts—a quarter of its annual budget. At those rates, the church is one of the better-paying gigs in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Some post-worship-war churches revel in musical eclecticism. Others have a singular approach and sound, rendering the terms traditional and contemporary irrelevant.