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 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) – Southern Baptists’ top public-policy expert said April 2 that whether or not President Obama’s action in Libya...

WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. ambassador to Malta, who helped rally Catholic support for President Obama's 2008 campaign, has spent "considerable...

CLEVELAND (RNS) In days long gone, Roman Catholic priests regularly made deathbed house calls, even in the middle of the night with little...

(RNS) A Jewish organization is celebrating Passover two weeks early, proclaiming freedom from Glenn Beck's television show....

Sydney, April 5 (ENInews)--Many of Australia's 3000 active and retired Catholic priests are critical of their bishops and admit they do not believe crucial church teachings, according to a survey t...

The World Council of Churches, the Conference of European Churches and the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe have expressed...

I am thinking of starting a campaign to bring back Palm Sunday, without the additional observance of Passion Sunday....

So, I’ve finally read Rob Bell’s Love Wins and am working on a review. When I think about all the controversy surrounding the book, I wish more people had a chance to take a study seminar I took while studying at Regent College.

Douglas Alan Walrath's astute survey of American novels about clergy is essential reading for budding pastors—as well as for anybody who wants to understand why we American clergy are the way we are.

John Paul Lederach, practitioner and theorist of peace building, has grounded his work in stories and metaphor....

After Jesus shared his last supper with his friends, they sang a hymn together. There is every reason to believe it was the Hallel, Psalms 113 through 118. How have I missed this before?

One of the funny sidelights of owning a chiminea (and Facebooking about making fires in it on a frequent basis) is that I have kind of become the "Parish incinerator for holy objects." Things like slightly "off-smelling" chrism, leftover blessed palm fronds, or worn out corporals or altar linens seem to find their way into my chiminea to be burned. I think part of it is folks in my parish know I love to burn stuff, and they also know my fire-sitting spot is, at least to me, a holy space.

Subscribe to the Century editors' link blogging by feed. Solidarity in honor of Dr. King. How, and how not, to stimulate the economy.

I'm late to this, but I can't let it pass by: I'm really going to miss Bob Herbert's op-eds in the New York Times. I think E.J....

One of the nastiest church fights in American history took place in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod in the late 1960s and early 1970s....

The Vietnam War forced Protestant ethicists to consider Catholic teachings about war, and I learned much from Catholic colleagues. My outlook was also changed by ecumenical contacts of another kind.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (RNS) At Spiritus Christi Church, the choir sings the lyrics of "Amazing Grace" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun" -- a song about a brothel....

Nairobi, Kenya, April 7 (ENInews)--Muslim leaders in Kenya are calling for government action on Christian schools that have banned students from wearing hijab, the head covering traditionally worn ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday (April 7) lamented the "tragedy" of a growing number of African migrants who have drowned in...

A generally excellent sermon I heard on Sunday (sadly not on th’Interweb yet) made an interesting point that stuck with me, quoting from Colossians 3:13...