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At its biennial General Synod in July in Tampa, Florida, the United Church of Christ became the latest historic Reformed church to formally approve the Common Agreement on the Mutual Recognition of...

For Living Faith Lutheran Church, the name change was as much about the future as the past....

"In these tough times, Americans are tightening their belts—and their government needs to do the same." This bipartisan applause line is pithy, full of populist empathy and easy to understand. It's also exactly wrong.

The scandal involving Rupert Mur doch's British tabloid empire brought scrutiny to, of all places, western Michigan and the Zondervan publishing company....

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Thomas Merton's conversion to Catholicism is among the most celebrated of the last century. But to which kind of Catholicism did Merton convert?

A new Century editorial argues that unemployment, not the budget deficit,...

The Dead Saint is a big Lud­lumesque, Dan Brown-ish terror novel saturated with a pronounced, take-sides morality....

On February 23, Libya was convulsed in civil revolt. Oil prices spiked, and stock values plummeted. Meanwhile, in New Jersey, a dog was euthanized. God forgive me, but it is this last event that I will remember.

Campus Crusade for Christ is out. "Cru" is in. The 60-year-old evangelical ministry recently announced its new name, saying the old name had become problematic....

If you want a window into what has happened economically in the United States the last 30 years, consider the case of Dean Foods, a leading U.S. dairy company.

Graham Standish wrote in one of his books about the typical church meeting.  The committee or governing board gathers.  Someone offers a...

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Male mainline Protestants can celebrate what we learn from our female colleagues: that our own sense of ordained ministry is unthinkable without them.

Even a painful cheap shot cannot shake Jacob's resolve.

As British authorities look into the cellphone hacking scandal surrounding the global media empire of Rupert Murdoch,...

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Last month I posted about Rais Bhuiyan, the Muslim hate crime victim who is advocating that his attacker, who shot Bhuiyan as part of a post-9/11 shoo...

Photo ID requirements not only act as a de facto poll tax; they address a virtually nonexistent problem. Concerns about voter fraud are wildly overblown.

Those of us who no longer live in oral cultures may have lost respect for storytelling as a vehicle of moral authority. Just give us the facts, ma'am. We're data people, and we like it in writing. For us the parabolic arts may be fine entertainment, but they're an unnecessarily messy way of getting at the truth.