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WASHINGTON (RNS) A freshman congressman said he is "neither anti-Muslim nor anti-Islam" after religious leader criticized him for saying the...

HARRISBURG, Ill. (ABP) -- A Baptist pastor in southern Illinois believes before heads of local government can be expected to support posting the...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Professors at the U.S. Air Force Academy have filed suit in a bid to stop a school prayer luncheon headlined by a...

WASHINGTON (RNS) A coalition of more than 50 Muslim, human rights, and faith organizations is urging House leaders to raise concerns about...

WACO, Texas (ABP) -- A Baylor University professor says a surprisingly large number of lesser-known “B” sides on vintage records of gospel...

Juba, Southern Sudan, February 3 (ENInews)–Some churches, parishes and church schools in northern Sudan are closing due to a large movement of people to the south after the independence refer...

In the wake of public spats between the Catholic hierarchy and health-care executives, the Catholic Health Associa­tion publicly acknowledged that bishops—not doctors or hospital ethicist...

Last week we heard those iconic words from Micah 6:8, "What does the Lord require but to do justice, love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God."...

I've said before that celebrating communion via Twitter (to make "a statement that we're prepared to embrace the technological revolution") seems like an especially poor use of technology. But Lisa Nichols Hickman brings up a techno-sacramental innovation that's at least somewhat more compelling.

The Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century was fascinating be­cause it pondered the deepest questions of how a social order can be structured to maximize human welfare....

Sacramental time means that past, present and future can coincide. People from different historical eras can participate or share in the same event.

Every significant act of protest has its iconic image: the barricades in Paris in the 1960s, the Berlin Wall in the ’80s, the roadside war-protest camps leading to George W....

Somewhere along the line, choosing to worship the God met in Jesus became a matter of life and death for me.

In an interview with Oxford professor Michael Willis...

That time for purification, according to the law of Moses, was forty days after the birth (see Leviticus 12). Tomorrow, February 2, marks the Feast of the Presentation, also known as Candlemas, when the church recalls Jesus' first journey to Jerusalem.

Dissatisfied with his aloof relationship to the Old Testament, Harrell, then minister at Park Street Church in Boston, decided to investigate Leviticus....

WASHINGTON (RNS) The pending repeal of the U.S. military's ban on openly gay members will not change policies related to chaplains, the Pentagon stated Friday (Jan. 28). ...

(RNS) When the Auburn Tigers won the BCS college football championship against the Oregon Ducks, Auburn coach Gene Chizik thanked God. The...

(RNS) Anglican archbishops concluded their six-day summit in Ireland on Sunday (Jan. 30) by issuing statements on a host of international...

In a blow to retirees of a major Luth­eran publishing house, a federal judge has ruled that the now-dissolved pension plan of Augsburg...