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It's been said there are two kinds of suffering: one kind leads to more suffering, the other kind puts an end to it....

"Music," Ludwig van Beethoven said, "is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."...

Rebecca Watson meant it as a funny story, almost an aside. In a video blog, the popular skeptic blogger recalled a man following her into an...

Prayer is not something we do first and foremost on our own. We pray with other Christians.

This week’s Theology Pub, a gathering of 20/30-somethings The Project FM hosts at a local bar to talk about God and life, tackled the topic “Is my truth better than yours?” Though it came out a few days too late, David Brooks’ NY Times Op-Ed this week, “If it feels right,” would have been great pre-reading.

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The new diversity and tolerance survey numbers from...

What do you get when you take an attractive, intelligent kid born into a loving, happy, Midwestern family and relinquish him for baptism, telling him he is now "engaged to profess Christ"?...

Jerusalem, September 14 (ENInews)--Religious leaders in Jerusalem are more willing than ever before to take part in dialogue with members of other...

PASADENA, Calif. (RNS) Millions of college freshmen are overwhelmed right now trying to make new friends, adjusting to more rigorous school...

(RNS) Don't look for children's Sunday school classes at Ridgewood Church in Port Arthur, Texas. And forget about scavenger hunts and water...

(RNS) A Presbyterian Church (USA) committee will recommend that the church add heavy equipment giant Caterpillar to its divestment list...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Reconciliation between the pope and a schismatic group is impossible unless the group accepts the last half-century of...

On my bike ride home from the train station, I see a church sign: "Shaking Foundations?...

The LA Times has an interesting article about evangelical pastors' involvement in political mobilization. Tom Hamburger and Matea Gold don't do enough to prove their now-more-than-ever hook--that pastors whipping votes in Iowa and elsewhere are "part of a growing movement of evangelical pastors who are jumping into the electoral fray as never before"--but it's still an important story to follow as we slog through yet another election season in which the religious right is still not dead.

Sociologist Claude Fischer is unhappy with historians' failure to provide a grand narrative of American history.

A man once bought himself a cemetery plot and a lawn chair, and then took a week of vacation to sit on the chair at his plot....

(RNS) As a federal appeals court in Denver considers whether Oklahoma voters had the right to ban Islamic law in state courts, a coalition of...

WASHINGTON (RNS) The State Department on Tuesday (Sept. 13) designated eight nations as the most serious violators of religious freedom, naming...

NEW YORK (RNS) One of the highest profile anti-abortion activists in the Catholic Church in the United States says he will abide by but appeal a...