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Three years after a gunman opened fire and killed six people at a City Council meeting in Kirkwood, Missouri, pastor David A. Holyan found...

It used to be that the defense of Second Amendment rights was linked, at least rhetorically, to the rights of hunters and outdoor enthusiasts, who worried...

Sometimes I'm a little slow. It's true. I don't always read the Bible as if it were for me. Lately I most often read scripture in search of a sermon for the congregation. Now, I realize that most of these sermons are also for me, but, yeah. I forget just to read for God's leading for my own life, for a deeper understanding of my own place with the People of God. It's a slippery slope.

Marilynne Robinson's first nonfiction volume since The Death of Adam is de­manding and elegant. Readers expecting a de­fense of theism against the new atheist fundamentalism, however, will be dis­appointed.

Just as an injured athlete needs to take a break, my friends needed to take some time to rest. And like the paralytic at Capernaum, they could depend on others' faith and not just their own.

Moscow, January 25 (ENInews)–Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill I denounced a terrorist attack at Moscow’s busiest airport as "the horrifying scowl of sin, and a barbaric distortion of h...

It was not Paul's worldly status and gifts that resulted in Corinthian faithfulness, but his weakness.

Our nation's been in a momentary fit of proposing that we...

The opening words on the telephone call were familiar: "You don't know me but I know about you. . . ." Since leaving the Presbyterian ministry 20 years ago I've had a number of such calls....

(RNS) For nearly 40 years, Hollywood has been obsessed with the possessed. Since the 1973 blockbuster "The Exorcist" unleashed a head-spinning,...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) If you're looking for the pope's Twitter account, keep looking....

Juba, Southern Sudan, January 24 (ENInews) – The head of the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC) has backed a statement by the president of southern Sudan that southerners should forgive northern...

This film about a couple struggling to cope with the death of their little boy has a limited imaginative reach. But the familiar can wield considerable power when the writing is honest and specific.

The eulogies go on and on, the bereaved helping to anoint the saint. But then the eulogizers go home, leaving the bereaved to mourn someone whose life contained shadows as well as sunshine.

The former president of the United Church of Christ has been suspended for one year and ordered to undergo a "program of growth"...

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Just as loving mercy is a means to doing justice, so is walking humbly with God. Yet in the sexuality debates raging in the mainline church, humility is seldom easy to find. Both sides cling to the fiction that they harbor gospel truth.

A sequel to the best-selling Three Cups of Tea, this book continues Mor­ten­son's inspirational narrative about building schools in conservative Muslim countries to educate girls a...

(RNS) A Chinese Christian should be given another chance at asylum after an immigration judge thought the man couldn't answer "basic...

Jerusalem, January 21 (ENInews)—The sentencing to death of a Muslim man in connection with an attack in 2010 that killed six Coptic Christians and a Muslim police officer is seen as being par...