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I began my first call to ministry 15 years ago. I wish that tucked into the moving boxes had been this slim volume by Kathleen Cahalan.

Heschel was born and raised in Warsaw in a Hasidic family, studied in Berlin and then was deported to Poland in 1938....

In 1968, Joseph Ratzinger wrote a modestly sized treatise on the Apostles' Creed called Introduction to Christianity. Its impact was anything but modest.

Bangalore, India, July 6 (ENInews)--Christians and other minority leaders in Pakistan have spoken out against the government's move to relegate issues regarding religious minorities to provincial g...

Mexico City, July 6 (ENInews)--A Catholic priest died of his wounds last week after being caught in the crossfire of a shootout between drug cartel gunmen and the military in Matamoros, across the ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) After Auburn University's football win over Clemson last season, coach Gene Chizik declared, "It's a God thing."...

WASHINGTON (RNS) The Dalai Lama celebrated his 76th birthday in Washington on Wednesday (July 6) by speaking before throngs of...

A United Methodist minister was suspended for 20 days by a church court in Wisconsin for performing a same-sex union in 2009, a breach of denominational rules....

"We have lifted the legal barriers that had segregated some loves to shadows," said Stephen H. Phelps, interim senior minister of Manhattan's Riverside Church....

The Episcopal Church is rejecting charges that its top leader, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, mishandled the ordination of...

The Chatelet Apprentice, by Jean-François Parot. I've been re-invigorating my French with the mystery novels of  French diplomat Jean-François Parot. (Several titles are available in English.) As police commissioner Nicolas Le Floch works to solves crimes in 18th-century Paris, author Parot expands the plot with descriptions of the era's culture, political intrigues and haute cuisine.

There was a lot to celebrate at the recent Pride parades. But while I support gay rights, I'm oddly unenthusiastic about the prospect of my own denomination considering a resolution to become open and affirming.

In this wonderfully titled memoir, Mark Vonnegut writes of his college years in the late 1960s: "At Swarthmore I majored in religion with the idea of going to divinity school and then maybe the Uni...

Why don't more people listen to Ron Sexsmith? The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter crafts masterful pop songs, records them with topflight producers and sings them in an understated croon....

Before attending seminary, I worked for several summers as a truck driver. Later it dawned on me that truckers and clergy travel a similar metaphoric highway.

You, Jacob—the one fleeing from that seriously peeved and smelly galoot of a brother (whose face will eventually resemble God's face)....

(RNS) In a potential blow to the proposed San Francisco circumcision ban, the city's top lawyer has concluded it is unconstitutional to ban...

(RNS) Crystal Cathedral founder Robert H. Schuller has been removed from a voting position on the board of the iconic glass megachurch he started...

(RNS) Though national and local Jewish groups have strongly condemned San Francisco's proposed ban on infant circumcision, a small but vocal...

(RNS) In a potential blow to the proposed San Francisco circumcision ban, the city's top lawyer has concluded it is unconstitutional to ban...