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After the U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2010–2011 term in late June, legal scholars specializing in church-state issues are saying a Court...

Critics of Robert H. Schuller say that his glassy Crystal Cathedral, now in bankruptcy, was more transparent than the fiscal accounting and health of a ministry long dependent on television fame....

Times of transition are tough.  We currently find ourselves up to our ears in boxes and and clutter and...

Of all the Gospel writers, Matthew has his eye most fixed upon the leadership of the church.

(RNS) Officials of the Southern Baptist Convention say they were the victims of a hoax in which a group claiming to be the denomination's...

Christian missionaries should re­nounce all "deception and coercive means" of winning converts, according to a final document from a...

Up until now, my ideas about summer reading were driven largely by guilt. My bookshelf is packed to the gills with books that I "should" read:  books people have given me and I need to return, or books that have been sitting there so long, I have given myself ultimatums--either read this or get rid of it.

President Obama seems to be moving in the direction of openly supporting same-sex marriage....

Does Jeffrey Stout's church have a god? One might say his god is democracy. But surely democracy is an ethic rather than a theology.

David Tracy once distinguished three audiences for the theologian: the church, the general public and the academic community. Joseph Ratzinger has spoken powerfully to all three.

WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday (June 27) that it will examine whether the Federal Communications Commission has the...

(RNS) After strong criticism from the Jewish community, Israel's ambassador to the Vatican backpedaled from his praise of the...

NEW YORK (RNS) With cries of "Rebuild now! Rebuild Now!" parishioners and supporters of a Greek Orthodox church that was destroyed in the 9/11...

Americans who don't have a narrative sense of the country's history are more susceptible to ideologues who try to weave their own versions of the past.

For many women, the hijab has become a symbol of striving for gender and racial justice.

Before his questioning of the doctrine of hell sparked such a (ahem) firestorm, Rob Bell wrote in Velvet Elvis a chapter about yokes.

In her essay in The Postcolonial Studies Reader, “First Things First,” Kirsten Holst Petersen writes about her experience...

Vic Chesnutt, who died of an overdose in 2009, was one of the best and most unusual songwriters of his generation. Country-rock veterans Cowboy Junkies are far more conventional....

In The Lausiac History, fifth-century saint Palladius argues that readers should imitate an ascetic vision, not specific ascetic practices.

For years, rumors abounded that Terrence Malick was working on a screenplay version of the book of Genesis. Though Genesis: The Movie has not yet come to fruition, The Tree of Life comes close to being such a film.