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VATICAN CITY (RNS) Several days after the Vatican's official newspaper reported that characters Homer and Bart Simpson are Catholic,...

(RNS) American Sikhs are urging President Obama to visit the famed Golden Temple in India next month, despite his administration's reported...

Israel, like the United States, is a largely secular society with deep religious roots. And Israel, like the U.S., is home to vocal...

Some of the best coverage of the firing of National Public Radio news analyst Juan Williams has been NPR's own. But the broader conversation has quickly become a chorus of ridiculousness.

If you share my concern about the theological thinness of much of the current craze of construing Christianity as a practice, get Roger Owens's book. Even more, if you care about the theological identity of the church, you will find The Shape of Participation to be this decade's finest work of ecclesiology.

The summertime floods have devastated Pakistan—in­undating one-fifth of the country, displacing millions, destroying and altering landscapes....

Most Americans believe that messages about homosexuality coming from religious institutions contribute to negative views of gays and...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer has become an almost mythical being, whose legacy everyone seems intent on claiming. From death-of-God...

My local Starbucks—and probably yours too—has a large sign on each door that proclaims, "Take comfort...

In The Kids Are All Right, a sperm donor connects with his biological children but is eventually dismissed as an "interloper" in their lives. To believe that the kids are all right, we have to agree with this judgment.

The people of God were slaves in Egypt when God heard their cries and sent Moses to lead them. But their hardships were not over. For 40 years they wandered in the wilderness....

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Two American archbishops, one serving in Rome and the other in Washington, D.C., will be granted a cardinal's red hat in a...

(RNS) As the U.S. has grown more diverse, more Americans believe that being a Christian is a key aspect of being "truly American," researchers say. ...

(RNS) John Dominic Crossan is arguably the world's foremost scholar of the historical Jesus. Twenty-five years ago, Crossan co-founded the...

Women have been ordained as priests in all dioceses of the Episcopal Church, now that the last holdout—Quincy, Illinois—has ordained its first woman....

Could an iPhone app help address teen bullying? Could a website connect abused children to help? MTV and its A Thin Line campaign think so....

My job often has me walking down hospital hallways.  Today it was at St Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ypsilanti where a parishioner is recovering from pneumonia.  Last week he slept as I sat i...

Last month Slate ran a series by Juliet Lapidos called Strictly...

Creation has long been a neglected child in biblical-theological studies; it is ground often left to creationists and naysayers. Only in recent years has the Bible's creation theology been addressed in a major way, not least because of the impact of the environmental movement.

The poverty rate in the U.S. reached 14.3 percent in 2009—the highest level in 15 years....