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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) Middle school is no picnic for a lot of students, but for Alec McGuire, it was intolerable....

(RNS) A new report asserts that anti-Muslim prejudice has worsened in recent years, but argues the trend could be reversed with greater community outreach....

Hong Kong, 24 June (ENInews)--Chinese house church leaders attended a training seminar from 14-16 June in Zhejiang, an eastern coastal province in...

(RNS) In a conciliatory gesture regarding one of the most sensitive points of Jewish-Catholic relations, Israel's ambassador to the Vatican...

(RNS) In a move likely to aggravate tensions with the Vatican, China's state-run Catholic church announced on Thursday (June 23) that it may...

JERUSALEM (RNS) Jews and Israelis, or passengers carrying any non-Islamic article of faith, will not be able to fly code-share flights...

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Musicophilia, by Oliver Sacks. This promises to be a fascinating, in-depth account of the physiological/psychological/emotive effects music has on us.

Stephen Colbert's commencement speech at Northwestern wasn't as funny as Conan O'Brien's at Dartmouth, but the inevitable "now I'm serious kids, please keep listening" section was far better--it was pretty much a hard-hitting sermon.

For a majority of mainline Christians, the NRSV is the biblical translation of choice. But the KJV is the English-language Bible on which all others stand.

Nostalgic country-gospel records inhabit a liminal space between personal-historical document and genuine religious statement. Daniel Martin Moore's latest follows this path but enlivens it a bit.

(RNS) Young Jewish Americans volunteer enthusiastically for a multitude of causes, but the vast majority do not connect their service...

(RNS) With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 looming, attendees at North America's largest Muslim gathering next month will be told that the best...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is the top Republican pick of evangelical leaders, according to an informal survey,...

The Little Way of Saint Therese of Lisieux: Into the Arms of Love, by John Nelson. Therese--who died of tuberculosis at age 24 and was canonized less than 30 years later--was an unassuming woman who found great joy in her littleness. This volume promises to be refreshing spiritual nourishment.

The most Christlike behavior I've seen in the news in some time comes from a Muslim victim of a hate crime.

Robert Wuthnow's social history of the Midwest demonstrates how the values that emerged in the six decades before 1950 were reshaped in the following six decades. In most ways Wuthnow gets it right.

When the church I serve undertook a strategic planning process, there was more golden calf than fiery pillar. But while we planned, God summoned.

WASHINGTON (RNS) NBC's decision to edit the word "God" from the Pledge of Allegiance during last weekend's coverage of the U.S. Open golf...

WASHINGTON (RNS) As President Obama prepared plans to bring a limited number of U.S. troops home from Afghanistan, a group of 40 religious...