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The dream of a ladder linking earth to heaven is surely among the most familiar images of biblical literature. From "We are Climbing Jacob's Ladder" to "Stairway to Heaven," the idea has been deeply embedded in our collective consciousness.

This last Saturday and Sunday I celebrated at the parish from which I retired three and a half years ago.  The rector was away at camp, and...

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Woody Allen fans were in a rough spot for nearly a decade and a half. But now, with his sexy, sun-drenched Medi­ter­ranean comedy Vicky Cristina Barce­lona and the en­chanting new Midnight in Paris, Allen seems to have a new lease on life.

A visit with Argentinan Pentecostal pastors left me grateful that the Spirit can use a variety of traditions—some orderly and some wonderfully disorderly—for the growth of the kingdom.

(RNS) Presbyterians who support gay rights are prepping sanctuaries this Sunday (July 10) to celebrate the passage of a new church policy that...

WASHINGTON (RNS) House lawmakers voted Thursday (July 7) to order the Pentagon to uphold the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that defines marriage as between one man and one woman....

New Malden, United Kingdom, July 8 (ENInews)--The European Parliament adopted a resolution on human rights in Indonesia on 7 July, making reference...

Nairobi, Kenya, July 8 (ENInews)--Christian leaders from around the world have pledged support for Southern Sudan, while hailing the region set to...

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A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness. I'm a fan of the Twilight series and early Anne Rice. This promises to be a good read in the same vein. For some reason, the title brings to mind a murder of crows.

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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out." So complained 18th-century French philosopher Denis Diderot....

WASHINGTON (RNS) Three church-state activist groups criticized the Army for allowing an evangelical concert at North Carolina's Fort Bragg but...

London, July 7 (ENInews)--With the United Nations warning that the Horn of Africa and other parts of Africa are facing their worst drought in sixty years, Christian Aid and several other relief age...

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(RNS) The Crystal Cathedral, which has put its iconic campus up for sale to end a bankruptcy crisis, has an interested party that needs a large...

When Wesley Granberg-Michaelson was younger, the bad blood between Christian denominations made the notion of a modern-day ecumenical...

Along with questions about fairness to...

I couldn’t bear to watch any of the coverage of the Casey Anthony murder trial. I heard snippets of information on occasion: intimations of...