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Our spring books issue includes the following annotated lists of top new titles: Kathleen O'Connor on Old Testament, Amy Plantinga Pauw on theology and Brent Laytham on ethics.

Moscow, April 26 (ENInews)--The Russian and Greek Orthodox churches are objecting to plans in both countries to introduce electronic national...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Anti-abortion activist Lila Rose has shared the stage with Sarah Palin, seen her exploits extolled on Fox News and drawn...

(RNS) This fall a film based on Donald Miller's bestselling spiritual memoir, "Blue Like Jazz," is expected to hit theaters nationwide. In...

At times I will again be struck by the smallness of the thing, of this bit of bread and sip of wine.

(RNS) An ocean away from the pomp and circumstance of Prince William and Kate Middleton's nuptials on Friday, parishioners at Grace Anglican...

The United Methodist Church is making good on a pledge to support a learning center at the western site of an 1864 massacre of Native Americans led by a Methodist minister....

Former New Jersey Gov. James Mc­Greevey—who famously announced he was "a gay American" when he resigned in 2004—will not be ordained into the...

Leading a church that isn’t a “church,” doesn’t meet regularly, and has a loose version of itself is all rather tricky. It’s also a lot of...

CEO Dan Cathy of the Chick-fil-A company has a new service model: the Sermon on the Mount. "Here's the deal," Cathy announced recently at the second annual Imagination Summit in California. "All of us were created in God's image."

When mission organizations send out promotional materials, they don't usually include missionary ruminations like Heather Hendrick's. She exposes her faith, doubt, frustration and hope with equal courage.

Christian Ethics: A Very Short Intro­duction, by D. Stephen Long....

Playing, by James H. Evans Jr....

"Come Out, My People!": God's Call out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond, by Wes Howard-Brook....

Vatican City, April 25 (ENInews)--Pope Benedict XVI on Easter Sunday called for an end to violence in Libya and the Ivory Coast and he prayed for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami,...

TRENTON, N.J. (RNS) The New Jersey Transit employee fired for burning pages of the Quran at the site of a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero will get his job back....

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) When Prince William and Kate Middleton walk down the aisle at Westminster Abbey on Friday (April 29), Britain's...

When Acts says Jesus is "taken up to heaven," this is not a spatial claim.

Easter brings with it an abundance of natural joy and reason for celebration. The love of God poured out for us through the Incarnation,...

This week is the Second Sunday of Easter, aka "low Sunday." There is in the life of a church a movement and momentum toward Easter Sunday, and then inevitably a scattering, a rest after the intensity. And yet the gospel lesson does wrestle with the implications of belief, unbelief and doubt.