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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....

If you stacked all the Bibles sitting in American homes, the tower would rise 29 million feet, nearly 1,000 times the height of Mount Everest....

Unable to satisfy creditors owed millions of dollars, the ailing Crystal Cathe­dral ministry in Southern California has filed for bankruptcy protection....

Islam is a valid religion that is entitled to constitutional protection, says a U.S. attorney who stepped into a debate about a proposed mosque and Islamic center in Tennessee....

I learned a new word recently and then encountered it three times that day. "Retrosexism" hasn't made it into the Oxford English Dictionary yet, but a...