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Three centuries ago in the village of Olney, England, a new parish priest came to town....

WASHINGTON (RNS) Evangelicals are the only major religious group where a majority opposes the federal government's efforts to reduce childhood...

See, the problem with using language like “my neighbor” is the unintentional (or sometimes more intentional) demarcation that occurs...

I grew up around evangelical church leaders who were hardcore about spiritual fasting, sometimes going a week on just water or 40 days on...

(RNS) Wolfgang Langhans, a Tokyo-based field director for missionaries, calls the week since the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan "the busiest and most stressful week of my life." ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI voiced "fear and trepidation" about the "disturbing news coming from Libya" in a carefully worded statement...

(RNS) The controversial Florida pastor who halted plans to burn a Quran on the 9/11 anniversary last year oversaw the burning of the Islamic...

Pastor James Howell knew he had a problem on his hands when several teenagers arrived at a church dance drunk and had to be taken from the...

Whenever the Israelites' "wilderness wandering" comes up, it presents a golden opportunity--especially in the current U.S. political climate --to talk about immigration.

In 1921, a Methodist minister fatally shot the most prominent Catholic priest in Birmingham, Alabama. Sharon Davies’s book makes vivid the pervasive anti-Catholicism of the early 20th-century South.

Many of the readers who flock to Søren Kierkegaard are members of the philosophy guild....

As Americans were complaining about all the snow this winter, arguing about the value of NPR and PBS, and learning that we suffer from an “enlargement of self,” the Japanese were dying by the thousands as solid ground gave way and the sea roiled and raged, consuming whole cities.

Many national leaders talk about cutting spending so as not to burden future generations with  deficits. They seem to have no problem, however, burdening the next generation with an overheated Earth.

On Ash Wednesday, Illinois governor Pat Quinn signed a bill banning capital punishment. A member of my congregation offers a powerful Lenten lesson for the year the death penalty was abolished in Illinois.

Reading scripture in unexpected places can unsettle the reading you were likely to bring to the text. So once a week I read a short biblical passage in some place other than my home or office.

(RNS) Southwest Airlines has apologized to a Muslim woman who claims she was removed from a flight from San Diego on Sunday (March 13) because of...

New York, March 17 (ENInews)--Ecumenical organizations on both sides of the Atlantic are urging NATO to remove all U.S....

Oslo, Norway, March 17 (ENInews)--The average Church of Norway member went to church once a year in 2010, Statistics Norway reported on 15 March in the annual statistical report it sends to the chu...

Crystal Cathedral founder Robert H. Schuller says he never would have approved a recent covenant that the church's choir members were asked...

The House of Representatives is voting today on a bill that would prevent public radio stations from paying their NPR dues with federal money. This follows the video that brought down NPR head Vivian Schiller and senior VP Ron Schiller (no relation to each other).