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When I make a new non-churchy friend, he or she often asks what exactly I do with my time as a pastor outside Sunday morning....

This past Saturday, I attended John Stackhouse’s lectures on faith, reason, and the new atheism down at the Vancouver...

Unlike Mary Valle, who recently heard of the Christian flag for the first time, I grew up pledging allegi...

The United Reformed Church of Great Britain has about 75,000 members in 1,600 congregations. It has been declining in membership for years....

Nairobi, October 25 (ENI)--A former general secretary of the World Council of Churches has warned that tension in Sudan ahead of a plebiscite on independence for the south of Africa's biggest count...

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (RNS) Florida Pastor Terry Jones held the keys to his black 2011 Hyundai Accent for only a few minutes on Friday (Oct....

(RNS) The New Testament warns about trying to serve two masters. But lately Hollywood's ordered up a rewrite. ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) A special Vatican meeting on the Middle East ended Saturday (Oct. 23) with a flare-up in Catholic-Jewish tensions,...

The gospel reading for October 31 comes toward the end of what most Lucan scholars call Luke's travel narrative. It begins ten chapters earlier at 9:51, where Luke tells us, "When the days drew near for Jesus to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem." One would expect to follow Jesus' progress on a map—but the coordinates make no geographical sense.

Yes, blogging about blogging can be the ultimate navel-gazing, but hear me out; I mean to intrigue. ...

My friend, Larry Kamphausen, posted an interesting essay on his blog recently....

Some of the most difficult challenges confronting Christian commitments to an inclusive vision of human well-being involve the effective disclosure of well-established, taken-for-granted practices ...

Earlier this year, a group of Eng­lish bishops charged that the nation's Christians faced systematic discrimination that endangered their right to hold public office....

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...