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The church I serve is 15 years old, and we’ve never had members....

On the darkest day of the year, the Incas tried to tie the sun down....

For the second year in a row the state of South Carolina has sponsored a Second Amendment Weekend—popularly called “the extrava-gun-za.” For two days over the Thanksgiving weekend shoppers can buy ...

How wide is God's mercy? One of Shane Claiborne's non-Christian friends asked if Claiborne thought the friend was going to hell. "I hope not," replied Claiborne. "It will be hard to enjoy heaven without you." If we "do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world," says Claiborne, "we should at least pray that it is" (www.esquire.com).

Longtime executive Bill Anderson has resigned after more than two decades as the leader of the CBA, the major umbrella group for Christian retailers....

Palestinian Christian leaders have issued a call for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, which they described as “a sin against God and against humanity,” and have appealed for s...

The former opinion editor of the Washington Times filed suit against the newspaper and its owner, sectarian prophet Sun Myung Moon, claiming among other things that he was coerced into atten...

Teachers in Oregon are likely to win the right to wear religious clothing such as turbans, yarmulkes and headscarves in public schools when state lawmakers convene in February, elected officials sa...

The vast majority of U.S. residents may be Christian, in self-identification if not in practice, but nearly a quarter of them dabble in a range of Eastern or New Age beliefs, a new study shows....

Bells pealed as a warning on climate change after the archbishop of Canter bury told a church service in Copen hagen, attended by people from major faiths and Christian denominations, that humanity...

Oral Roberts, the pioneering television evangelist and faith healer who became the dean of Pentecostal preachers in the U.S....

Americans’ views of the “honesty and ethics” of clergy have hit a 32-year low, with just half rating ministers’ moral caliber as high or very high, according to Gallup’s annual Honesty and Ethics R...

Nine days after announcing that he would send more troops to Afghanistan and set July 2011 as the start of a gradual withdrawal, President Barak Obama gave a similarly nuanced speech in accepting t...

Since becoming the first lesbian to be elected a bishop in the Epis copal Church, Mary Glasspool has been hailed as a gay rights pioneer and maligned as the straw that will finally break the back o...

By the fourth century, you could become a Christian without risking your life. Church inevitably became entangled with private clubs, government posts and social networks....

By the time this issue of the magazine is in your hands, the fate of health-care reform may have been decided by Congress....

Some intriguing tidbits of American history that I gleaned from recent reading:...

Members from more than 500 congregations marched in Charlotte, North Carolina, last October as part of the “10 Percent Is Enough” campaign. While conceding that careless spending is the chief cause of consumer debt and needs to be addressed, march organizers object to credit companies' enticing offers of easy credit, their increased interest rates and their profitable penalties. The "10 percent" campaign proposes a cap on interest rates.

As a Presbyterian pastor, my husband, Bob, had always been sympathetic when a parishioner became trapped by dementia....

As someone who is “first” in this world, am I in trouble with God?