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The farm-to-fork movement is uber-hip. But this post is about something even more local: tasty backyard garden-grown food in season. It's one of the perks of rural ministry....

Jane Ziegelman writes in 97 Or­chard that gefilte fish, one of many immigrant food traditions she describes, came to New York City's tenements with German-speaking Jews at the end of t...

Hong Kong, 8 October (ENI)--Hong Kong Christian leaders have urged the government in Beijing to release 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, who  was honoured for his "long and non-vio...

Each Century books issue includes annotated lists of recent titles in a couple broad areas. Our fall books issue features Beverly Roberts Gaventa on New Testament, Philip Jenkins and Grant A. Wacker on world Christianity and American religion and Anthony B. Robinson on practical theology.

During college, I taped a religious poster on my dorm room wall. Under a photo of a white country church against a green, timbered hill were the words, "I lift up my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help." I liked the Bible verse, the scene was pretty, and I enjoyed the peaceful reminder of rural home places. But a friend who was knowledgeable in scripture said the poster was theologically incorrect.

I have no enemies. How am I to love them? No enemy curses me. No enemy raises fists at me. No enemy persecutes me. No enemy hates me. I doubt anyone in the enemies of my state - Taliban or Al-Qaeda - care much about a stay-at-home dad living in a suburb of nothing in Texas. Frankly, I'm not important enough to have enemies in this world, and I'm not doing anything important enough that might make me any, either.

As a lot of you noticed, our new site's subscriber log-in process wasn't working properly for several days last week....

Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle: Living Fully, Loving Dangerously, by Kent Annan....

Friendship at the Margins: Discovering Mutuality in Service and Mission, by Christopher L. Heuertz and Christine D. Pohl....

Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Christianity, by Mir­iam Adeney....

Rarely do I see a film when it first comes out, but I'm very glad I chose to see The Social Network on its box-office-dominating opening weekend. It was...

The French spy picture Farewell is literate, complex and thoughtful....

Students of American religious history have long been aware that, at least until re­cently, the field has been riddled with four yawning gaps—eras that cried out for solid synthetic treatments. Those gaps are (in reverse chronological order) religion during the Great Depression, religion and the Civil War, religion during the Revolutionary era and religion during the Great Awakening.

Two questions for today: First, why read poetry? I mean, really—who cares? Who has the time, not to mention coin, when you could be reading tremendous novels and stunning essays?...

Doug DeVries describes Sunday evening worship as "a lot less formal" than the morning service at Plymouth Heights Christian Reformed Church. It's also a lot less crowded....

Lists of the "best of" are inevitably somewhat arbitrary, reflecting individual views of what "best" might mean. Not surprisingly, the eight theologians we asked to name five essential theology books of the past 25 years came up with very different titles.

(RNS) A new six-part PBS series explores how deeply religion has influenced and informed American public life, from Catholic...

A family's right to privacy for the funeral of a slain marine clashed with a small church's right to preach its antigay gospel in a case...

I've never liked show choir, but I love Glee. Not primarily for the singing or dancing, though each is sometimes great....

As part of a tradition noted for its thrift, I can be a little sensitive about the word cheap....