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I was really struck by a phrase in Chet Raymo's blog post "A Saturday Reprise." He begins by quoting Bilhah in The Red Tent who responds to Zilpah's expression of fear at leaving a place where customs and gods are known and moving to the unknown by saying "Every place has its holy names, its trees and high places. There will be gods where we go."

A  majority of congregations in the United States average fewer than 100 in attendance. While some congregations manage to employ a full-time minister with the requisite M.Div....

(RNS) Tennessee lawmakers are rewriting a bill that described Islamic law as a threat to U.S. security and seemed to equate peaceful Muslim practices with terrorism. ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) The Army has started training chaplains on the repeal of the ban on openly gay military members, saying those who are unable...

U.S. officials praised a United Nations council for a new statement on religious freedom that sidestepped a divisive debate sponsored by...

Many years ago on a mission trip in Haiti, our group was ministering in the isolated mountains in the west near the Dominican Republic. The village where we stayed was where the road ended. To say it was a “road” was an exaggeration.

Maybe you consider yourself a "branded" Christian--Presbyterian, Baptist, Catholic.  Maybe you don't hold your brand loyalty close....

This spring marks the 100th anniversary of the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, generally considered the greatest manifestation of the "Great EB."

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican's official newspaper eulogized actress Elizabeth Taylor as the "last remaining star in the firmament of old...

(RNS) Air travelers want to feel safe, and federal security officials want to make sure they actually are safe. If only it were that simple. ...

We may never know why bad things happen to good people, but most Americans—except evangelicals—reject the idea that natural disasters are...

Since starting seminary I've had the opportunity to read through the Old Testament with a thoroughness I haven't used since my...

Alister McGrath, one of modern Christianity's foremost theological voices, is writing children's books....

As the Society of Biblical Literature has grown in membership, tensions have simmered over the degree to which religious apologetics fits into an organization devoted to critical research.

Most churches have the equivalent of Eat at Joe's signs, advertising religious services so that people will stop, come in and taste what is good. The signs are imperative; they command us to eat here and not there.

WASHINGTON (RNS) Barely two weeks after House Republicans held hearings on the threat posed by radicalized American Muslims, the Senate's No. 2...

(RNS) The U.S. ambassador to Pakistan called the burning of a Quran at a small Florida church "abhorrent" as Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari...

New York, March 23 (ENInews)--Anti-Christian violence in Pakistan continued to take a toll as two Christians were shot and killed and two were wounded after Muslim youths allegedly attacked them ou...

As a church musician, I've been known to program what I thought were familiar Charles Wesley hymns, only to find my non-Methodist song leaders tongue-tied by the ambitious melodies and all-doctrine...

Sooner or later, and usually sooner, conversations about passenger trains and Amtrak in particular sputter with the dirty "s-word": subsidies. But all American means of transportation de­pend on "subsidies."