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In The Trip, culled from a British TV miniseries, comedian Steve Coogan, ostensibly playing himself, is sent by a newspaper to tour England's finest restaurants, accompanied by his friend and fellow comic Rob Brydon.

Several years ago I met in D.C. with a group of young evangelical professionals. While certainly not world-fleeing fundamentalists, they were not theocrats either. They were seeking an alternative approach.

Cape Town, South Africa, August 12 (ENInews)--Retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said apartheid had left South Africans suffering from...

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I'm a part-time student at a denominational seminary, where I'm working (very slowly) on an academic-track masters. It's generally been a good experience, but the school's not a perfect fit. Again and again, professors and coursework assume a ministry context.

(RNS) Controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones, who sparked international outrage for plans to burn a pile of Qurans, will visit...

ENID, Okla. (ABP) – An Oklahoma pastor says the Southern Baptist Convention should reconsider a database to help safeguard churches from clergy who are sexual predators. ...

(RNS) When congregants of West Side Church and the Christian Life Center in Bend, Ore., awoke in June to news that their churches had been...

(RNS) A federal judge ruled Thursday (Aug. 11) that the public transit system in Little Rock, Ark., violated the free speech of local atheists...

As relief organizations minister to thousands suffering from drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, some religious leaders say they are...

It's been rather quiet on the Presbyterian battlefront since May 10, when the Twin Cities presbytery in Minnesota became the 87th to vote to lift the ban on LGBT...

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Drew Westen is right: Obama would do well to name the villains in the economic story he tells the American people. But the villains aren't individuals; they're powers and principalities.

William Cavanaugh has written a pair of stunningly important books, in which he makes a clear and persuasive argument for overturning a founding myth of the modern Western state.

I'm making my rounds at Safeway, shopping for my church's community meal. In the produce section—where I am forbidden to ask for donations—I see two heaping boxes of fresh fruits and vegetables headed to the trash.

The Roman Catholic priest who faces expulsion from the priesthood and his religious order for advocating for women priests is refusing to recant and has hired a church lawyer....

Like most Americans, Brother Ed­mund Dwyer was stunned by early coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C....

A beleaguered 11th-century church in England is losing its worshipers and has been forced to suspend services indefinitely because of bats in its belfry....

I’m always intrigued when I’m reminded of some of the background stories (context) behind the actual words of the Bible....