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Global warming will force faith organizations to significantly increase spending on humanitarian efforts—including refugee resettlement, food distribution and disaster relief—according to a new stu...

An independent federal body that monitors religious freedom is urging President Bush not to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing unless there are discernible changes in China...

Eileen Lindner, the widely respected researcher who has overseen the annual Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches for 10 years, will leave her post at the National Council of C...

The president of the 1.5-million-member Reform Judaism movement called controversial Texas pastor John Hagee an “extremist” and urged fellow rabbis to shun his high-profile support of Israel....

A Virginia court has ruled that a Civil War–era law applies to a property dispute between the state’s Episcopal diocese and 11 congregations that have seceded from it....

Archbishop Alfred Hughes of New Orleans is asking his Catholic flock, including those far from the flood zone, to prepare for a reorganization of Catholic life befitting a church deeply damaged by ...

With a dozen regulars or fewer attending services, the 150-year-old Kinderhook United Methodist Church in rural Illinois near the Mississippi River shut its doors this Easter....

In American theological education, we are in the midst of recruitment season. Applications to M.Div....

This spring a certain Christian layperson has been criticized for not exiting his local church when he disagreed with something his pastor preached. ...

What happens to a person when the Holy Spirit descends like a tongue of fire? In Acts, those present were filled with the Holy Spirit. We all long for this. We all seek fulfillment. I saw this once when I was conducting a spiritual retreat for members of various 12-step groups. Each person spoke powerfully about how the pain of emptiness in his life had led him down wayward paths. Each had discovered that “you can never get enough of that which will not satisfy.”

There were only 11 disciples on the mountain. The group was incomplete because one had betrayed Jesus and given in to despair....

De La Torre brings new light to the book of Jonah when he sets it in conversation with the lives of marginalized peoples....

Begbie’s overall project is exploring the place of music in God’s ecology of creation....

Two distinguished scholars offer us important new statements about Christian ethics....

G. K. Chesterton as Controversialist, Essayist, Novelist and Critic. By John D. Coates. Edwin Mellen Press, 206 pp., $109.95...

"Of making many books there is no end,” says Ecclesiastes. Certainly more books are made than can be read, and many are produced that probably didn’t need to be....

This book inaugurates a new series, Oxford Studies in World Christianity, to be edited by Lamin O. Sanneh....

This is a book that I believe is right, true and helpful....

A theological engagement with the current global environmental crisis needs to do four things....

These are sobering times....