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We expect Jesus to emerge from John’s shadow in a public way, to take on the establishment and lead the charge for God’s reign. Instead, when John is arrested Jesus withdraws (Matt. 4:12)....

Margaret A. Farley, a Catholic nun and former Yale Divinity School ethicist, has been awarded the Grawemeyer Award in Religion by the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Semina...

Roman Catholic missionaries should aim to win souls and not restrict themselves to humanitarian good works, the Vatican said December 14....

New Jersey became the first state in decades to repeal the death penalty as Governor Jon S. Corzine signed a measure to end what he called “state-endorsed killing.” ...

Bishop John-David Schofield struck an urgent tone when he urged his Fresno-based San Joaquin diocese to defect from the Episcopal Church....

The spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion says it would be “unrealistic and ungrateful” to expect the Episcopal Church to make yet another attempt to explain itself....

Senator Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican who is investigating the finances of six prominent Pentecostal and charismatic ministries, says he doesn’t plan to hold hearings on any individual minist...

The recently dismissed head of the United Methodist Church’s main ecumenical and interreligious agency says his forced departure was due to disagreements over the body’s future direction....

With megachurches come megacrowds, megamoney and, increasingly, mega–security concerns....

The nation’s largest Lutheran denomination has issued election-year guidelines for congregations and outlined seven issues, from hunger to health care, that reflect the church’s emphasis on social ...

New “nonnegotiable” guidelines for evangelism at Young Life ministries has led to the closing of a North Carolina office of the group and the claim by a national expert on youth and religion that t...

Negotiating the dicey waters of presidential diplomacy would be easier than resolving differences among Baptist groups, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said in a campaign appearance...

Mike Huckabee went from long-shot candidate to serious GOP presidential contender in only a few weeks—and the tone of media coverage went from bemusement to serious critical analysis of his record....

The darkness in the Harry Potter books has alarmed some Christians, who claim that the books encourage an unhealthy and dangerous interest in the occult. Catholic writer Michael O’Brien says: “Rowling’s wizard world is gnostic in essence and practice, neutralizes the sacred and displaces it by normalizing what is profoundly abnormal and destructive in the real world.” But John Granger, author of Finding God in Harry Potter, believes that J. K. Rowling is following in the footsteps of C. S. Lewis in using magical themes to point up archetypal human experiences that relate to salvation history as understood by Christians.

In 1965, I reported in these pages on the New York World’s Fair....

What an anomaly: while many Americans were gearing up for Christmas and singing the angels’ song of peace on earth, good will to all, the nation was considering the government practice of torture—o...

"Better to be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian,” Martin Luther is alleged to have quipped....

Speechless: Poet Scott Cairns recounts a Dan Rather interview with Mother Teresa in which he asked her what she says to God when she prays. “I don’t say anything,” she said. “I just listen.” Rather then asked what God says to her. “He doesn’t say anything,” she responded. “He just listens” (Crux, Winter 2006).

If you’re a lectionary preacher with access to the Internet, you have probably clicked on textweek.com....

Light is light. And only light can bring our fragmented darkness into proper perspective and allow us to see things whole.