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Does the Southern Baptist Con­vention need a new name? The president of the nation's largest Protestant denomination, Bryant Wright, who is...

Recently my father-in-law's Medicaid plan stopped covering Lexapro—with little notice. By the time he could get authorization for a "preferred" antidepressant, he had quit cold turkey.

It’s not really about taxes. It’s about our increasing contempt for the poor.

New this week from the Century.

An organization was leading a training seminar for professionals....

Bangalore, India, September 20 (ENInews)--Muslims in Kashmir, in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, are supporting the re-building of a...

LONDON (RNS) A group of 30 leading scientists, including a Nobel laureate and a prominent atheist professor, are pressing the British...

c. 2011 USA Today (RNS) The way you see God tells a lot about how you see the U.S. economy, according to a new national survey....

There is much about how religion and Christianity are understood and publicly discussed in our post-Christian Canadian context that produces a mixture of bemusement and genuine puzzlement for me.

I didn't refer to my godson as my godson until I heard one of his parents do it first. They asked me to be a baptismal sponsor but didn't use godparenting language at first, so I wasn't sure what name(s) they were giving the relationship. I was glad when, just before the baptism, the baby's mother said to him, "These are your godparents!" It's pretty awkward calling a kid your "baptismal sponsee." Really drains the cute right out of the moment.

WASHINGTON (RNS) Dozens of religious and civil rights organizations challenged President Obama to fulfill a campaign promise to end...

PELHAM, Ala. (RNS) Five years ago, Living Word Church had dwindled to 40 members, had lost its founding pastor and was unable to pack more than...

(RNS) Just days after prominent anti-abortion activist Rev. Frank Pavone was ordered to suspend his work as head of Priests for Life, Pavone and...

(RNS) The saying goes that when God closes a door, he opens a window. So when the Borders bookstore chain -- the nation's second-largest...

A long-standing tax break for clergy and other "ministers of the gospel" is facing the lastest in a string of challenges in federal...

The German poet Schiller said this: "How gladly I'd serve my friends, but alas, I do so with pleasure. And so I have this nagging feeling that it's unethical."...

As pastors, we spend a great deal of time sharing in the ongoing lives and adventures of our congregants and community members. We are also called, literally, to come to love and suffer with them when disappointments, disasters or deaths occur.

Christians think differently about friendship. Our understanding is rooted in a God who never writes us out of the story of divine love—whatever our failings.

Our August 23 cover story on monogamy and Dan Savage has gotten a lot of feedback, both positive and negative. Benjamin Dueholm offers a nuanced take on the ways the popular sex columnist is beating pastors at their own game--and the ways Savage's ethical worldview falls short. Some readers seem too stuck on the first point--"the Christian Century believes we should be instructed by an advice columnist," crows Joe Carter at First Things--to hear Dueholm out on the second.

WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious content faces a "clear and present danger of censorship" from Facebook, iTunes and other new media platforms,...