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Marriage among Americans who have graduated from high school but not college is on the decline, and their religious attendance has dropped at the same time, a new report shows....

A few weeks ago, on my way home on a crowded rush-hour train, I was slouched down in my seat trying to hide my uncontrollable crying. I was sobbing...

The big political news this week is yesterday's deal...

When the lectionary tells me I can skip a few verses, I am not suspicious. I don't ask what secret is being kept from me or what doctrine is being protected....

New York, December 7 (ENInews)--The King James Bible may not be the dominant cultural reference point it once was in the United States, but it still influences contemporary letters in the country, ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) The vast majority of Protestant pastors think former President George W. Bush is a Christian, but less than half think...

Of the 16 pastors serving Calypso Presbyterian since the end of World War II, 15 have come straight from seminary.

I am not a fan of Disney princesses. I can deal with the tiaras and the pink, but I'm disturbed by the sexualized visions of thinness,...

Today is the 69th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which drew the U.S. into World War II. The Japanese attack was led by Mitsuo...

The birth of Jesus contradicts the idea of a God who "lay above the earth like a layer of icy cirrus." The birth means that we encounter God, not only in elegant theology but in work and in our enjoyment of beauty, friendship and love—in love particularly.

Rome, December 6 (ENInews)--The head of the World Council of Churches in his first official meeting with Pope Benedict XVI has said he wants to strengthen cooperation with the Roman Catholic Church...

WASHINGTON (RNS) The typical member of a fast-growing atheist association is a highly educated, married white male who grew up with religious parents. ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) With three weeks left before the 111th Congress adjourns, faith groups are mounting a full court press on Capitol Hill...

PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Mohamed Mohamud was born into chaos, his family fleeing a bloody civil war in Somalia to a crowded refugee camp in...

What do nurses, soldiers, pharmacists, elementary school teachers, doctors and police officers have in common? Americans say they are all...

We typically think of name-calling as trash talk, violent speech, all harm and no good. Often it is. In the aftermath of the midterm elections, I'm well past my quota of derogation and defamation. But not all name-calling is violence.

The little rural church I serve, along with two other retired clergy, has two dozen members, if you carefully count everyone whether there or...

The mantra of the real estate business  is "location, location, location." In this attention-meriting book, the mantra is "local, local, local." John McKnight (professor emeritus at Northweste...

Philip Jenkins has argued that Christianity's future is an African one. If so, what does the area poised to become Africa's newest independent nation tell us about Christianity's future?

I can't stand the word "entitlement." I use it sometimes, when people annoy me with their belief that the world owes them something or that their needs are more important than those of others....