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People looking for signs of theological sanity in this land can take heart from the fact that only 33 pastors endorsed a presidential candidate as part of a ...

Mind-boggling: If the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street were paid out in $100 bills, it would amount to a stack 54 miles high. Given the magnitude of the plan, no wonder there is public outrage. But columnist James Carroll noticed another, similar figure: in the fiscal year just begun the Pentagon will spend $607 billion on regular military operations (as well as another $100 billion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq).

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dined with 300 religious and political leaders on September 25 in New York City, but the event, which drew condemnation and protest, offered far less dialogue ...

Did the “worthless slave” know the story of the foolish bridesmaids? When they did not preserve the oil for their lamps, the women were locked out of the party....

Elections produce overwhelming hope or overwhelming disappointment. On the Wednesday morning after a national election, one half of the country wakes up disappointed with the other half....

2 Corinthians 8 contains the only New Testament reference, outside the infancy narratives, to Jesus being poor.

Anxious about the election results? So am I....

At an otherwise innocent potluck during the primaries,...

If there is one idea that unites Jim Wallis and Pat Robertson, it is the idea that voting is a good idea....

Why is that man holding a sign, Daddy?” “He wants us to give him some money.” “Why does he want money, Daddy?” “B...

When his family was shopping for a church, Robert C....

I’ve covered the Sundance Film Festival many times and can say with reasonable authority that the movie lovers who brave Utah winters to see world premieres are some of the easiest audiences I’ve e...

It's easy to read the parable of the ten virgins as a tribute to two core American values: individualism and meritocracy....

For all the saints in your congregation, today is a crucial moment to name both the importance of the saints--that great cloud of...

Many of the issues before us in this election year were present at the founding of the nation, as I learned from Joseph J....

Barack Obama promised to practice a different kind of politics, a politics that would stick to the issues....

True confessions: Michael Jinkins, dean of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, says that the pastor of a large evangelical church told him he had decided to do away with a corporate confession in worship services. It’s too much of a downer, the pastor explained. Jinkins asked him, “Isn’t it more of a downer for your people to leave worship without confessing their sins and hearing the assurance of God’s pardon?” (Cultural Encounters, Winter).

Described by the Los Angeles Times as the “preeminent student of the relationship between religion and American politics,”John Green has conducted surveys on religion for ev...