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A fresh telling of the earliest encounters between the Islamic world and Christian Europe hardly needs justification....

In the early 1990s, I passed an evening in the home of a young couple in Northern Ireland...

In the late 1970s, Dieter Georgi would begin his New Testament ethics class by speaking of hunger....

In Anger: Your Spiritual Ally, Andrew Lester, emeritus professor of pastoral theol...

When Forrest Church announced to his congregation that his esophageal cancer was terminal and that he had months, not ...

Nick Cave might not be well known, but time spent with this complex Australian rocker is well spent....

The makers of Hellboy II: The Golden Army must have had the time of their lives....

When I read Romans 12:9-21, I think: this is the best of it, this is what marks and makes a good Christian. Love truly and even more generously than the next guy....

About 150 years ago, Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard observed, "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." ...

Students of Shakespeare know that the bard didn’t create his material solely out of his own imagination, but instead masterfully recrafted stories that were centuries old....

Not many policy proposals from the 1990s can be trotted out a decade later in almost exactly the same form....

Think twice about ethanol: Before you buy a car that uses E85 (ethanol-based) fuel, consider this: ethanol-burning vehicles consume 25 percent more fuel. In this country ethanol is mostly made from corn, and the amount of corn used to fill an SUV with ethanol could feed a person for a year (caranddriver.com).

In June, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, a professor in the justice and peace studies program at St. Thomas University in Minneapolis, ended his bid for the U.S....

Nikki Stephanopoulos, a longtime spokesperson for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and mother of Washington political insider George Stephanopoulos, retired this month....

Iowa bishops from three denominations have demanded an overhaul of U.S....

The Lutheran World Federation is preparing to formally ask forgiveness from Anabaptists—Mennonites, Amish and similar believers—for 16th-century persecution, including torture and killings....

Adding fuel to the growing controversy over gay marriage in California, a group of retired United Methodist clergy has volunteered to perform same-sex marriages, a move that conservatives call a “s...

The Church of England is facing the threat of a major split and years of turmoil over a vote by the church’s General Synod to allow the consecration of women as Anglican bishops....

An appeals court in Denmark has voided a lawsuit against the newspaper that was the first to print controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005....

A long-shot attempt to block a George W. Bush policy institute on the Southern Methodist University campus fell short at a regional United Methodist meeting in Dallas....