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By now, the no-longer-new food movement has provoked files full of skeptical responses....

My former congregation prided itself on being warm and friendly. Then one Sunday Michael came to worship, and we discovered the limits of our welcome....

Alt-country is typically traced to Uncle Tupelo, but the early '90s Jay­hawks made better records. Where Uncle Tupelo found scrappy affinities between traditional Americana and punk, the Jayhawks brought '70s country-rock to the alt-rock '90s.

Many Mexican Christians behave heroically, working for peace and meeting social needs where government has all but abdicated power. But the drug crisis has also exposed some weaknesses in the church.

ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) -- Mourners filled First Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, March 9 to celebrate the life of a young mission...

Cambridge, England, March 9 (ENInews)--The sudden spread of "democratic liberation" in the Middle East means that a discussion needs to begin on whether secularism has a future in Middle East democ...

(RNS) When Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy Baca asked Sgt. Muawiya "Mike" Abdeen to set up a liaison unit to local Muslims in 2008, the...

New York, March 10 (ENInews)--Nearly two dozen U.S. Christian leaders are calling on the Obama administration to renew diplomatic efforts to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....

HOUSTON (ABP) -- Houston Baptist University trustees voted March 10 to allow non-Baptist Christians a minority presence on the school’s governing board. ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Violence committed in the name of God or religion is a "favorite instrument of the Antichrist," Pope Benedict XVI writes in a...

Research by a political science professor shows that affiliation with a mosque increases Muslims' civic engagement. "The more religious...

On Ash Wednesday, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a law abolishing the death penalty in his state, making the Land of Lincoln the 16th...

They were moved when the first Muslim elected to Congress shed tears discussing a Muslim who died trying to save others on 9/11. They were...

Yesterday I traveled to Elizabeth, NJ to celebrate Ash Wednesday. This vigil was unique in that it took place outside the Correction...

Those of us who enjoy poetry had good reason to be cheered by a two-column...

Amid the apocalyptic to-do about Rob Bell possibly considering an idea that other Christians have considered for centuries, Rachel Held Evans had a fun idea: an interview with another Rob Bell, a web designer in the U.K.

This is not a classic conversion story, let alone a pietistic revulsion against the intellect. It is an account of how prayer has the power to change one's perception of the theological task.

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent, the day when ashes are placed on foreheads, and the...

A blogger at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America points out that some lines of Paul-Gordon Chandler's article on events in Egypt are unusually close to lines in a February 19 article in the New York Times—and charges that Chandler lifted them from the Times.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer continues to captivate the Christian imagination in the English-speaking world 65 years after his murder by the Nazi regime, but this does not mean that his life and thought are...