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Christians have often used technology—from electric guitars to Power­Point presentations to blogs—in the service of witnessing to their faith....

The serpent was right: when Eve and Adam ate the fruit, they did not die; they saw more clearly.

New York, March 1 (ENInews)--The potent symbol of bread will take pride of place this week as an annual common day of prayer focuses on the struggle of women in Chile....

(RNS) For evangelical author John MacArthur, the best way to explain a Christian's relationship to Jesus is what appears to be a simple...

Tokyo, March 1 (ENInews)--North and South Korean Protestant church groups have held their first simultaneous worship services to commemorate a declaration of independence on 1 March, 1919 from Japa...

LONDON (RNS) Two senior judges have banned a Christian couple from any further foster care because they oppose homosexuality, a stance that the...

(RNS) Late last week, the provost of Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., announced that the school officially had recognized its first gay student organization. ...

(RNS) The Rev. Peter Gomes, the longtime minister of Harvard University's Memorial Church who was hailed as one of the nation's top preachers, died Monday (Feb. 28) at age 68....

IRVINE, Calif. (RNS) "Michael Oren, propagating murder is not an expression of free speech!" And so began the protest of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's...

METAIRIE, La. (RNS) A fundamentalist Christian pastor known for his bullhorn protests of the annual Southern Decadence gay pride festival...

I have finally gotten around to putting away the green garden hose I tripped over all fall. After some extended travel time, the sudden frigid weather caught me off guard. Trying to coil cold plastic hose in a chilly garage seems impossible. Getting the job done properly requires time and patience. I was determined to take hours if necessary and to do it with humor and the long view.

Started in 1992 by a loose coalition of white and black evangelicals in Jackson, Mission Mississippi's early efforts were geared toward big events. Later the focus shifted to personal relationships.

Faithful prayer asks not merely for healing but for patience and discernment and continuing faith­fulness. By comparison, a superstitious act is easy and in­stan­taneous.

Christchurch, New Zealand, February 28 (ENInews)--On the Sunday after an earthquake ravaged New Zealand's second-largest city, worshippers gathered outdoors, in unfamiliar churches and next to dama...

Nairobi, February 28 (ENInews)--Libyan Christian clergy have appealed for urgent help for Eritrean refugees who have taken shelter in a church in Tripoli, following days of violent anti-government ...

(RNS) For Janis Galvin fasting for Lent has long meant saying no to candy for the 40 days before Easter. But when the season begins this...

(RNS) The fierce budget battle in Wisconsin that's pitting unions against Republican Gov. Scott Walker has also pitted the state's top...

Southern Baptist bookstores have quietly suspended a four-year-old program that warned customers to read with "discernment" works by...

Learning to see in new ways is one of the most difficult tasks of the transformed life. Old habits of selective vision, old choices about what to leave out and what to focus on tend to dominate us, even as we search for new ways of living that are in closer communion with the life of the Spirit. Transfiguration--that mysterious transformation of vision that is narrated in today's readings--is a radical, if brief, way of illumination.

First published in 2000, this book was the definitive account of the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan in the vacuum left after the defeat of the Soviet Union and the retreat of the rest of the wo...