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Americans are tougher on politicians for their financial misdeeds than their sexual ones, but men are more willing than women to tolerate...

Are U.S. evangelicals losing their influence on America? A new poll from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life seems to say just that,...

A group of clergy and lawmakers is trying to overturn a nearly decade-old policy that allows faith-based organizations that receive...

David Heim recently highlighted the article in the June 9 issue of The New Republic (subscribers only) by pioneer bioethicist Daniel Callahan and Sherwin B. Nuland, author of How We Die. According to Callahan and Nuland, our health-care system has for decades "been waging an unrelenting war against disease," with dire effects on the culture.

Gary Dorrien's spring Century article, which argued for economic as well as political democracy, whetted my appetite for the book that part of it was adapted from: Economy, Difference, Empire: Social Ethics for Social Justice.

Although nuclear arsenals have declined, the risk that nuclear weapons might be used is arguably greater now than it was during the cold war.

The New START treaty between the U.S. and Russia lowers the number of permitted nuclear warheads by approximately 30 percent. That is still too many, but it is an important step.

"Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion!" says the bold, insensitive prophet.

Nairobi, Kenya, June 21 (ENInews)--Christians are braving the fighting in Libya to deliver help to civilians trapped in the five-month-old conflict between dictator Moammar Gadhafi's forces and NAT...

BERLIN (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI has a lot of ground to cover when he heads back home to Germany this September, but thanks to a new...

NEW ORLEANS (RNS) The religious order that runs the last remaining Catholic school in the country to use corporal punishment says it will...

Warsaw, June 21 (ENInews)--The European Union risks "undermining its core values" unless it treats refugees and asylum-seekers more humanely, according to a senior Protestant expert....

The president of the Christian conservative Family Policy Network has sent Sen. David Vitter (R., La.) a letter calling on him to follow the...

I heard from a relative today a story about a younger child in our family who asked her parent if God has hair. The parent had at least...

I have two major reading projects that I'll be continuing in tandem this summer. They may sound like polar opposites, but I find them to be quite similar.

NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Even before the Southern Baptist Convention elected the Rev. Fred Luter to national office, there was already widespread...

LONDON (RNS) The Church of England has issued a set of "legal guidelines" that pave the way for openly gay clergy to become bishops --...

(RNS) United Methodists will begin a trial Tuesday (June 21) against a Wisconsin minister who's accused of breaking church rules by celebrating...

(RNS) Jack Van Impe, a popular End Times broadcaster, has ended his decades-long run on Trinity Broadcasting Network after a dispute over...

"We have rejected much of our immediate [evangelical] past," says Josh Carney of his church, University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas. Looking to older traditions, "we found that some of our objections had already been addressed."