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Working in the shop gave bone and muscle to my pastoral identity. But it also taught me to anesthetize anxiety with long hours, to work out of fear of failing.

In the Feb. 3 New Republic, Alan Wolfe, the magazine's...

It is helpful to identify the formative moments in one's life.

(RNS) Each week brings an average of two arsons, seven thefts, and 19 burglaries at U.S. churches, according to Christian Security Network's...

Juba, Southern Sudan, February 9 (ENInews)--Church leaders in Southern Sudan have called for urgent strategies to end threats caused by northern Uganda's rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LR...

(RNS) A federal appeals court ruled Monday (Feb. 7) that a Puerto Rican law intended to keep neighborhoods safe from crime has been used...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Just in case Catholics are wondering if a new iPhone app might be able to forgive their sins, the Vatican has issued a clarification: No. ...

The top court of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has found a Boston minister not guilty of violating church rules against performing gay...

With a smooth voice, a signature mop of hair and a string of hits, Canadian singer Justin Bieber has accumulated millions of fans, and last...

When Vatican officials announced recently that Pope Benedict XVI's 2005 election rendered his organ donor card null and void, they offered...

Friday Night Lights, which ends tonight, portrays a small town and the relationships within it. The show is steadfastly conventional, commercially unsuccessful and the best thing on television.

Joseph Lowery is a survivor of the civil rights movement, a compelling Meth­odist preacher and a fearless advocate for the underdog....

One Sunday morning in the late 1950s, as I inched along in the line waiting to shake hands with my pastor after worship, I was singled out....

I  remember a conversation my mother and I had one day after worship in the small rural church in which I grew up and where she and my dad...

Six hours at a summer church camp altar in 1977 set the trajectory for my life. It was then, at the age of 12, that over the course of...

At age 12 I decided (with lots of encouragement) to become a communicant member of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Decatur,...

My mother, after having experienced the power of the charismatic renewal in the early 1970s, cornered my father, a faithful Lutheran...

My formal theological training began and ended with a course on the scriptures in eighth grade, leaving me with all the faults of the...

I was raised by Irish Catholics. Even as I write that it sounds a little like "wolves" or some especially feral class of creature. I don't...

The term theological education brings to mind formal study. But people's deepest convictions about God and their deepest stirrings of faith are often formed at an early age.