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Sometimes the news of the world can take the hope of Easter right out of you. Sometimes it's hard to believe in the resurrection....

It's fashionable for 21st-century blues guitarists to blow you away with fretboard pyrotechnics. But Dave Specter harkens to the previous...

Martin Marty laments the moment when you realize you are not going to read all the books you hoped and planned to read—and you will have to depend on what others are saying about books you wi...

(RNS) When leaders of the nation's oldest seminary and a Unitarian Universalist theological school began to dream of building a new...

Catholic, evangelical, mainline Prot­estant, black and Latino Christian leaders have formed a "Circle of Protection" against U.S. cuts...

A series this week by Jonathan Cohn takes this point as its premise:...

Peter Himmelman's gifts for melody, lyrical poignancy and spiritual depth are rare among singer-songwriters. He can also rock: "Motel Room in...

"I wanted to open a bookstore that would contain the best of what had been thought and written," says Warren Farha of Eighth Day Books. It's "an impossible goal, but that was the guiding telos of the store."

Staring helplessly at a broken appliance or other household malfunction, I often recall a quip by Joseph Epstein, an essayist and editor: the only thing I can fix is a sentence. ...

Like many modern gospel records, this double disc was recorded live. But it be­gins nontraditionally: "Reclaim Your Moun­­tain" builds tension by...

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."