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(RNS) An Indiana prosecutor on Thursday (May 5) dropped trespassing charges against nearly 80 anti-abortion activists who protested...

(RNS) More than 20 percent of atheist scientists consider themselves to be "spiritual," according to a Rice University study....

NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Working in a cluster of offices above a LifeWay Christian Bookstore, Bible scholars are buried in a 20-year project to...

Who really wants to lead a balanced life? The times I've been happiest—when I was raising young children or consumed with a project—my life has been decidedly out of balance.

In 1831-32 two young Frenchmen, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, traveled through the United States, ostensibly to study the prison system on behalf of...

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It seems as though every time I read a well known piece of scripture, I find something I had never seen before....

Our service ended with a Eucharist, celebrated at an imposing altar. I learned to make my gestures big, to open my arms wide, to lift the cup above my head. What I never quite got the hang of was the chanting.

Nairobi, Kenya, May 3 (ENInews)--The killing of Osama bin Laden has united survivors of the 1998 terrorist attack on the U.S....

Congregations that pay little heed to their bylaws are often in a state of perpetual crisis, chronic conflict and steady decline.

JERUSALEM (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to tackle the question of whether American passports issued to children born in Jerusalem should include the word "Israel."...

TORONTO (RNS) A former Roman Catholic bishop in Nova Scotia has pleaded guilty to trying to import child pornography after he was arrested in 2009 returning from a trip to Thailand....

Supporters marked the 60th annual National Day of Prayer on May 5, just weeks after a federal appeals court dismissed a suit that...

Five days after one of Britain's great churches, London's Westminster Abbey, was seen on television by millions as the site of a royal...

A friend posted this to Facebook the other day: "'Burial at sea is a weird choice, and only invites suspicion, but I really don't want to have to see the photographs, either.'" - Martin Luther King, Jr."

Eliza Griswold's book is a nearly perfect puzzle. On the one hand, she is doing some of the most important religious journalism being done these days....

When the great theologian Karl Barth was charged with being a universalist, he reportedly denied it, but then quoted 1 John: "Christ died for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world."

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (RNS) Gov. Robert Bentley, who came under fire earlier this year for telling non-Christians that "you're not my brother and...

"For God and country,” said the SEAL team commander. But if the God that Augustine had in mind were to shape how we think about war, there wouldn’t be much room to celebrate the killing of Osama bin Laden.