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A group of 13 Ohio clergy is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of a Washington boarding house used by conservative members of Congress....

The initial Baptist reaction to the choice of a controversial national political figure to serve as president of Baylor University has ranged from enthusiastic to skeptical....

Ever since the Great Recession began in the fall of 2008, Christians and other faith leaders have criticized the speculative excess and greed that led to the crisis....

When Studs Terkel, described by Donna Seaman as “oral historian, writer of conscience and raconteur-on-a-mission,” died on Halloween in 2008, he left a tall stack of books behind him....

In the 19th century, European and North American missionaries spanned the world, bringing the light of the gospel into what they thought were the dark corners of heathendom....

Matthew Hoh is a former Marine Corps captain who has served with the U.S. Department of State in Iraq and Afghanistan....

After having been buried for a week in the rubble of Haiti’s January 12 earthquake, Ena Zizi was rescued by the Gophers....

We Christians believe that we have a moral obligation to point to the pain that the rest of the world can’t see. Others may stroll past the suffering, but we stop and stare, take up an offering, make an appeal and collect blankets, sighing as we do our bit to alleviate some of the misery. That life may not actually be rotten in our part of the world today only increases our guilt for our occasional lapses into joy. How dare we sing when others are sufffering?

In time for Holy Week, this issue features David Cunningham’s essay on the destiny of the “other thief” who was on...

For a number of years our church has had a pastoral internship program designed for intensive discipleship training and character formation....

The promise of Isaiah 65 is that God is doing a new thing. What's taking God so long?

The fate of the other thief

By the time you read this, Avatar will have grossed enough to pay down the national debt, bail out a few more banks and provide top-shelf health care to everyone west of the Mississippi....

Here’s a reality show I would like to see....

Some years ago a young Southern Baptist minister in North Carolina, identifying her political stance in that church, ...

Terry Eagleton is many things, all of which converge into intelligent passion and a command of thinking beyond ideolo...

Lanier is the computer scientist who coined the term “virtual reality” after being part of “a merry band of idealists” in the 1980s who were thr...

As I read about Jesus' instructions to his disciples in Luke, I think of my church's instruction of interns....

It’s official: the Catholic bishops have come out against the health-care bill.<...

Will Rep. Bart Stupak and his gang of anti-abortion House Democrats derail health-insurance reform?...