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When the prayers of the people begin, the Stephens' pew in the back starts to thump. Ten-year-old Mallory is working her way toward the door. As I hand the offering baskets to the ushers, she returns with a large cooler.

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Patricia Lamoureux and Paul Wadell have written a text in fundamental Catholic moral theology with a creative twist....

For better or for worse, the sex columnist provides real-time exegesis of the seventh commandment.

My friend believes that death is not the final story. Is she right?

(RNS) After a car bomb detonated on Wall Street one minute past the noon lunch hour killing 38 people, federal investigators came up with a possible link to an overseas group....

(RNS) A Roman Catholic priest who has campaigned for the ordination of women has been told he will be expelled from his religious order if he does not publicly recant....

(RNS) When Justin Bieber strode onto the stage of the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on Sunday (Aug. 7) night to accept a Teen...

A third of the world—about 2.2 billion people—live in nations where restrictions on religion have substantially increased, according to a new report....

London, August 9 (ENInews)--With the smell of smoke and wail of sirens in the background, about 200 to 300 people from a range of faiths on the...

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I’ve been trying to put my finger on why I’ve felt some angst about Ellen Dollar Painter’s post “Why Don’t You Just Adopt?” over on Thin Places.

As youth become more and more attached to their digital gadgets, Christian camps are grappling with how to resist the power and presence of this technology.

(RNS) The Obama administration is taking heat from religious groups, particularly Catholic leaders, upset that new federal health regulations...

The head of the Unitarian Universalist Association has been convicted on misdemeanor charges for participating in a protest rally against Arizona's controversial immigration law....

Prison Fellowship, a prominent evangelical ministry to inmates, has laid off dozens of employees, citing the faltering economy....

In the weeks since North Carolina's legislature laid off most of its prison chaplains, Betty Brown, director of prison chaplaincy services,...

Matthew invites us into a whole variety of experiences this Sunday. Verses 10 through 20, considered optional, center around a conflict about tradition and authority followed by a parable about the truth of the actions of the heart. This is followed by healings and feedings. The next chapter begins with more conflict.

Unlike my Century colleagues, I am not an avid book reader; I have no new history, novel or memoir to commend for our summer reading list<...