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Canterbury, England, April 1 (ENInews)--A self-effacing multi-millionaire, Jonathan Ruffer, 59, has become a cultural icon here after buying a series of 17th century religious paintings from the An...

WASHINGTON (RNS) In 2008, Safoorah Khan, a math teacher in Illinois, asked for 15 days of unpaid leave (19 days including weekends) to make a...

(RNS) The Florida pastor who presided over the recent burning of a Quran said the United Nations must protect Afghans from deadly riots, even as...

The common good is taking a beating. Economic inequality has accelerated dramatically since the early 1980s, and many think nothing can be done about it. But that verdict is a nonstarter for Christian morality.

Paying taxes in this country is ordinarily accompanied by much grumbling. But paying taxes is not just a legal duty but a moral opportunity.

Charities are seeing improvements in fund-raising, with fewer charities recording declines in 2010 compared with 2009, according to a recent report....

President Barack Obama's visit in March to the tomb of the late Oscar Romero, the martyred archbishop who was assassinated 31 years ago, is getting mixed reviews by U.S. commentators....

A national alliance of public employees is accusing the National Park Service of "leadership paralysis" for not addressing questions about religious displays at federal parks....

I believe in evil. I believe that evil has a face and hands and pulls a lot of strings. I have too much experience of strange circumstances...

Subscribe to the Century editors' link blogging by feed. How not to silence Elizabeth Johnson. Fr. Roy Bourgeois faces 'laicization': Hero or heretic?

Much of the most delightfully silly online humor follows a particular formula: a single good idea that alters or plays on a pop-cultural artifact; execution that relies on computer technology, but not too much (some simple Photoshop work, a couple lines of code); loads of nostalgia.

(RNS) Facebook shut down a "Third Palestinian Intifada" page and similar groups this week, prompted by complaints from Jewish groups that the...

(RNS) Almost all U.S. churches witnessed a change in the financial giving they received in 2010 compared to 2009, with smaller churches...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (ABP) -- Dynamite pulling down mountain tops and satellite dishes pulling down a homogenizing signal are making...

It's great to see David Beckmann convince Mark Bittman to join the fast against attempts to cut federal programs that help the poor and the hungry. Bittman's dismissal of the religious element of the effort by Bread for the World and others--"I doubt God will intervene here"--betrays his unfamiliarity with Christian thought. (I'm tempted to send him one of my ELCA "God's work, our hands" fridge magnets.) But thanks to Bittman's involvement, now even the Nation is giving the progressive evangelical effort positive coverage.

Tuesday on the CBC interview show Q, Jian Ghomeshi talked to actor Ed Begley Jr., Hollywood's leading environmental activist and green-lifestyle enthusiast. Discussing Living With Ed, the reality TV show in which Begley and wife Rachelle Carson clash over his carbon-footprint obsession, Begley observed that Carson is the sort of person who cares about the earth but doesn't go to extremes.

We love to celebrate the peaks of Jesus' life in worship, but how often do we remain with him during the valleys of his life?

When Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth studied revolutions that had occurred over a period of more than 100 years and across the globe, they found that nonviolent revolutions are twice as likely as violent ones to succeed. Chenoweth explains that nonviolent revolutions attract a greater range of the population and create a higher likelihood of defection among supporters of a particular regime.

Although the French film Of Gods and Men is set in Algeria in 1996, it could just as easily be set in any Middle Eastern or African country that is struggling with the rise of Islamic extr...

In the Gospel of John, the raising of Lazarus is the cause of Jesus' death.