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Looking back to history to find yet another approach to atonement will not solve the problem, but a reconsideration of the physical or mystical theory of how Christ saves us might contribute to more fruitful and civil conversation.

Going into the temple of the Lord would never be taken lightly. Still, Isaiah could not have imagined what was about to happen.

Most worshipers take the psalms for granted, treating them like background music that establishes a mood but has little grip on the imagination....

Human beings give way too easily to the temptation to make our arguments on each other's bodies. The apostles' lives were saved because one learned man was willing the make his argument another way.

Peter Rollins is a prominent figure in the Emergent church movement in the United Kingdom. Schooled in philosophy, with several degrees from Queens University in Belfast, Rollins is determined to revitalize Christian practice with a peculiar blend of self-critical Christian practice and theory. He works with a group called Ikon, which engages in “anarchic experiments in transformance art” and holds “theodramatic” events in pubs and on the streets of Belfast.

"Jesus, like most cultural heroes, is malleable," writes Stephen J. Nichols....

Going into the temple of the Lord would never be taken lightly. Still, Isaiah could not have imagined what was about to happen.

Crisis recounts the sad stories of young people who, like Esau, cried for a blessing and too often did not receive it.

Paul Krugman is one economist who can analyze the complexities of an economic crisis, propose solutions and make the dis...

That religion is especially salient for new immigrants is a commonplace in the sociology and history of U...

The landscape of American religion is changing rapidly....

It takes a certain level of self-deception to be a lukewarm evangelical. Intense piety is in the tradition’s DNA....

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One of the most important books to read in the year of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday may be Jean Baker’s biography of Mary Todd Lincoln, origina...

The Soloist is a rarity&#8212a triumph-of-the-spirit movie in which the hero's triumph is ambiguous. It's a movie about accepting small successes and living within your limits.

We could accuse this week's texts of setting up dichotomies: Romans wants us to live by the spirit, not the flesh. Nicodemus and Jesus trade...

Some of us are in Pentecost graduate school. We're seminary-educated and steeped in the church. We understand the preacher's dilemma when Easter...

Why aren’t we talking about guns? A week before Easter, three Pittsburgh police officers were shot and killed while responding to a domestic disturbance....

Activists on both sides were disappointed when the Obama administration revealed its policy on embryonic stem cell research last month....

Living with contradiction: As a youth Garret Keizer was troubled with contradictions in Paul's letters. He raised the issue with his pastor, who pointed out a contradiction that Keizer hadn’t noticed: in Galatians 6 Paul says both that we are to bear one another’s burdens and that we are to bear our own burdens. But Keizer now doesn’t think this is a contradiction. We need both imperatives, Keizer says—self-reliance and social responsibility. “The trick is to get them to kiss” (Harper’s, April).