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President Obama has named Emily C. Hewitt, one of the first women to be ordained a priest by the Episcopal Church, as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims....

President Obama, still without a church home, keeps in touch with as many as a half-dozen clergy for private prayer by telephone—all of them evangelicals....

The church sign of a Pentecostal congregation facing a busy Los Angeles–area street bore a single message for months: let us pray for our new president....

“What would you say to someone who is hesitant to invest in Sudan’s schools or health clinics given the likelihood that violence will return to Sudan?” My colleague was addressing Archbishop Daniel...

Many excellent scholars study Islam. Many other scholars explore the changing face of global Christianity....

Every year we preachers eagerly look for help with the daunting challenge of preparing an Easter sermon....

The first disciples experienced Jesus’ resurrection not as some single triumphant fait accompli, but by fits and starts.

This is no voluntary association, no transactional contract. The sheep do not earn the shepherd or elect him.

What will happen if Barack Obama makes good on his promise to withdraw American troops from Iraq by 2011?...

I believe that prayer can heal, and I’ve witnessed miraculous healings in my own pastorates. So why was I, cast into extremis by a chainsaw, reluctant to pray?

Eight years ago, shortly before Palm Sunday, our eight-year-old son was under the weather. My husband, Lou, had volunteered to cover the doctor’s appointment and a trip to the drugstore for whatever prescription would clear up Calvin’s little infection. “Go to the gym,” he said. “You need to relieve some stress.”

Theological discussions of the relationship between Christianity and other religions have been at a st...

Protestantism is dangerous....

Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River, has given us an important novel about America, one I am grateful to have at a time when many truths about our...

Killinger took his first pastorate at the First Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, a small city t...

Nominated as Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards and awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Gomorrah chronicles the violent activities of the Camorra, or “the System,”...

We postmodern people are always trying to move on to the next project goal or big idea....

On Easter Sunday we proclaim the resurrection. But the second Sunday of Easter gives us an opportunity to reflect on the nuances, contradictions and implications of this central event....

I once heard a preacher say that it might have been crowded and a little smelly inside Noah’s ark, but the folks inside knew it was better to be on board than not....

A few days ago, I led a parade around a Chicago block—on horseback. It was weird....