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Unmanned drones have become the weapon of choice in the Obama administration, which launched more drone attacks in nine months than the Bush administration did in three years....

By all accounts, the crowd that gathered outside the temporary quarters of the Roman governor in Jerusalem on a Friday morning 2,000 years ago whipped itself, or was whipped by skilled political op...

Abraham haunts me. When I wrote my first Faith Matters column in 1997, I began with those three words....

Once upon a time, Europe lived in an age of faith, which found buoyant expression in the massive popularity of pilgrimage....

I’m delighted to be back among the 400-year-old whitebark pine trees of the Wind River Range in northwest Wyoming....

I started to write when I was teaching at Augustana College, but after moving to the University of Notre Dame in 1970 I really began to put words on paper....

It’s tempting to blame partisan politics for last summer’s debacle over “death panels” and the very idea of doctors and patients holding conversations about the end of life. But the truth is: these conversations are difficult. Although some people welcome them, others approach the subject of death cautiously. Many of us would rather not explore what awaits us in the final years or weeks of life. Perhaps this reluctance explains why only one in five Americans has completed an advance directive for medical care.

My contract as “intentional transitional pastor” or interim with East Bay Community Church (not its real name) had expired, and I was working on a month-by-month agreement. By the grace of God, the church and I had moved through five developmental tasks proposed by the Intentional Ministry Network. Healing had taken place, and a sharpened vision statement had been communicated. I was feeling affirmed by the church and knew that its leaders valued my expertise and contribution, as well as me as a person. Then one morning I heard the news: the pastoral candidate would preach the next month, with a congregational vote to follow on the same night.

Short-term mission trips continue to rise in popularity....

Not surprisingly, given that they are selected for Trinity Sunday, today’s texts point to God-in-three....

It’s an ever new story—the building of a great tower, quickly followed by a descent into babble. We citizens of the 21st millennium seem to be standing amid the bricks from our own Babel towers....

There is some high irony in the fact that the United States has come to be commonly recognized as an empire (for good or i...

Brosend makes four claims about how a focus on Jesus’ rhetoric can improve modern preaching: One, Jesus formed his messa...

The Last Station is a complex but entertaining study of a 48-year marriage and the way subtle and extreme changes that take place in each partner can take a terrifying toll on the relationsh...

The first ever Academy Award for Best Picture was given in 1929 to Wings, a World War I aviation drama full of groundbreaking aerial sequences....

Once upon a time, Europe lived in an age of faith, which found buoyant expression in the massive popularity of pilgrimage....

Wondering what it would be like to have his life turned into a screenplay for a movie, Donald Miller a...

A subtitle for this collection of expertly crafted verse might be “A Memoir in Poetry.” Angela Alaimo O’Donnell has arranged the poems so that they loosely f...

Lorrie Moore, whose short-story collections (Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?...

At the heart of this complex and learned book is a single question: Did the apostle Paul regard the gosp...