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John Ames, 76-year-old Congregationalist minister and narrator of Marilynne Robinson’s st...

Michelangelo and Rembrandt depicted him bearded and robed, seated and downcast, absorbed with inexpr...

At the height of the second Palestinian intifada, Richard Griffiths, the editorial dire...

It is often assumed that forgiveness is impossible in the face of extraordinary evil....

Cole provides a sweeping perspective on the Middle East, a stinging critique of the Bush administration’s policies, and a warning to and advice for the ...

An old Senegalese proverb says, “An elder who dies is like a library that burns.” This belief is at the heart of the small but moving independent film Goodbye Solo, directed and co-written b...

We are in the interim between Easter and Pentecost. Of course, we live in an interim in other ways: we anticipate graduations, new jobs, the resolution of dilemmas....

The reading from Acts offers a foretaste of Pentecost, only two weeks away....

There is not much applauding in the church I serve, and that’s all right with me. When applauding in church becomes routine, it loses any meaning....

If the economic recession has made people more receptive to spiritual concerns and theological insights, that interest has not translated into sales of religion books (see ...

Theology for buffaloes: Donald Shriver Jr. recalls when a publisher sent the library at Union Theological Seminary in New York a copy of Kosuke Koyama’s ground-breaking book Water Buffalo Theology. “The book landed on a discard shelf outside the library door," says Shriver. Soon afterward, Union named the book's author its professor of world Christianity. Koyama died last month at age 79 (ENI).

If it is a little difficult to find your way into Holy Nativity Episcopal Church in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles, it isn’t because there are too few doors, but because there are so m...

Conventional wisdom holds that when times get bad, people turn to religion. But that’s not the case in religion publishing....

Lutherans, Jews, Muslims and others seeking to cling to their faith in a time of tragedy came together for a prayer vigil April 4 at Redeemer Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Binghamton, New York....

The president of the National Association of Evangelicals has taken a rare step into the immigration debate, saying that the long waiting period for citizenship must be shortened and that other ref...

Nine years after becoming the first state to allow same-sex civil unions, Vermont has become the first state to approve same-sex marriage without a court order....

An Episcopal priest who professed two years ago that she was also a practicing Muslim has been defrocked by the Episcopal Church....

Kosuke Koyama, a Japanese Christian theologian who was a proponent of contextual theologies rooted in the experiences of ordinary people, is being lauded for his far-sighted commitment to religious...

A Catholic priest who specialized in treating sexually abusive priests strongly advised church leaders—including Pope Paul VI—that abusers should be defrocked and possibly exiled to a Caribbean isl...

President Obama has named nine new advisers to the White House office for religious and community groups, adding a gay rights leader, an Orthodox Jew, a black Pentecostal bishop and others to an ec...