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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.

Here are texts that say to the church: "You are holy."

(RNS) If she had listened to her parents, Sister Jenn Graus might never have professed vows last month to join the Congregation of St. Joseph. ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) The architect of the Obama administration's new consumer protection bureau met with faith-based groups Tuesday (Feb. 8)...

Moscow, February 8 (ENInews)--The Russian Orthodox Church has ruled that hierarchs (church leaders) and clergy can run for office in exceptional cases when their presence is needed to fight "forces...

The current issue of Marie Claire contains an interview with a young, unmarried pastor whose calling impacts her sex life--because her ordination vows include celibacy in singleness.

Woven deeply into the fabric of Protestant Christianity is the idea that faith is something you must own...

The Christian heritage of praying next to water is older than Christianity itself, being deeply influenced by our Jewish heritage. One of our stunning water-prayer treasures is Psalm 104.

Boxing movies are hardly ever about boxing. This one's real subject is the pull of family.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (RNS) The Catholic bishops of Ohio are calling on Gov. John Kasich and state lawmakers to abolish the state's death penalty. ...

I can see it in their eyes. It's orientation night for those who are considering our church's catechumenal process. You want me to do all that?