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After splitting more than 150 years ago, the Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church are joining together to launch...

Following a recent chapel series at Wheaton College on "Sexuality and Wholeness," gay alumni and other alumni of the school have formed an...

Every now and then, pastor Amy Butler will find herself having to do a little simultaneous parenting and preaching from her pulpit at Calvary Baptist Church in downtown Washington....

If there is one thing we natives of rural northeast Missouri know how to do, we know how to "do funeral." One of the greatest comforts in this...

David Vogan is one of the most dedicated church members I know. Every Sunday, 15 minutes before the prelude begins, he climbs up into our soaring, Gothic tower...

"But if you endure when you do right and suffer for it, you have God's approval." (1 Pet. 2:20b)...

PARMA, Ohio (RNS) Government officials told Arab-Americans and Muslims that some post-9/11 security measures are easing, and acknowledged that...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The pope may not be ready to start a blog or a Twitter account, but the Vatican is taking note of the unruly world of...

WASHINGTON (RNS) The Supreme Court on Monday (May 2) declined to hear a Catholic group's appeal accusing San Francisco supervisors of violating...

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Even before Rob Bell's book Love Wins (see the Century review by Peter Marty)...

We are right to feel a sense of relief that a major source of evil has been removed. But we should reflect also on the flip side of that relief: the nature of our fears.

Rob Bell fights every impulse in our culture to domesticate Jesus, reminding readers that Christians do not believe in Christianity; they believe in the Christ who wants to "draw all people" to himself.

Imagine you are a young mother living paycheck to paycheck, with no health insurance. Where would you go for a pregnancy test? For treatment of a sexually transmitted disease? To obtain contraceptives? In each case, the answer for millions of Americans is Planned Parenthood.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The late Pope John Paul II, who elevated unprecedented numbers of Catholic saints and blesseds during his 26-year...

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) To many Americans, Thomas Jefferson is a symbol of liberty and religious freedom, the architect of American democracy and a...

Rome, May 2 (ENInews)--The Vatican on 2 May announced that it relieved Australian bishop William Morris of his post, five years after he published a letter interpreted to indicate that he would be ...

More signs of tough times: Large majorities of Presbyterians expect that a decreasing number of their churches will be led by full-time pastors....

Total enrollment is up for the first time in four years at seminaries of the Association of Theological Schools—thanks to the addition of 11 new schools to the roster of North America's accre...