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Well, now we know: Rep. Anthony Weiner used Twitter to send a lewd picture to a young woman. He then lied about it repeatedly before finally confessing....

Rebecca Solnit’s thesis is that paradise can arise from hell. If I am more pessimistic, perhaps that is due to accounts of natural disaster such as Emma Larkin's in her new book.

"Most Americans would like to see people take care of their own business. On the other hand, most Americans don't like to see tanks crush unarmed crowds."

At my baptism, I giggled.

WASHINGTON (RNS) Four months after the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a new Gallup survey says a majority of Egyptians want religious...

Jerusalem, June 7 (ENInews)--Israeli and Palestinian politicians condemned an arson attack on a West Bank mosque on 7 June, but Palestinians also...

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NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Wearing a monk's robe, Abbot Justin Brown climbed into the witness box on Monday (June 6) and said the only people who ever...

The two possible meanings of the title of this post are intentional. It seems to me that the same tactics that Christians who believe in the Bible’s inerrancy use to deal with evidence to the contrary are the tactics being used to defend the inerrancy of Sarah Palin (and other politicians – Palin just provides one obvious recent example).

In recent columns, Nicolas Kristof has taken up...

Music historian Craig Monson had the rare privilege of doing re­search in the Vatican Archive reading room....

This is a case study in citizen diplomacy, defined as the attempt by private citizens to develop relationships with people in countries that are hostile toward one's own country....

Among the thoughts that course through my brain when I'm supposed to be focusing on my breathing are thoughts about worship. Being a newcomer to yoga has prompted me to reflect on what it is like to be new to one of our services.

Who owns yoga? That unexpected question arose last year when the Hindu American Foundation identified what it views as two serious misconceptions about yoga that are widespread in the West.

TOKYO (RNS/ENInews) Roman Catholic bishops from across Asia will hold a summit on "The Impact of Pedophilia" in the Catholic Church, saying...

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour warned several hundred Christian conservatives gathered in Washington recently not to expect a "perfect...

Roughly two out of three Americans say it makes no difference to them if a presidential candidate is Mormon, according to a new Pew Research...

It's commonly suggested that the Pentecost story is a reversal of the chaotic separation of the Tower of Babel. That point gets debated. What isn't debatable is that people remain separated in abundant ways.

A member of an adult education course that I taught on the book of Acts showed up one Sunday morning with his own maps and charts, a CD by an evangelical preacher whose credentials seemed suspect, ...