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When Mark Hanson, who heads the 66-million-member Lutheran World Federation, read the open letter sent to Christian leaders by an unprecedented range of Muslim clerics and scholars last month, the ...

During the testimony portion of a worship service at Central Park United Methodist Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, “Karen” walked to the front and confessed for the first time that years earlier she had killed a woman while driving drunk, had served five years in prison, and had then begun drinking again. “I was a menace to society,” she said. When she finished, she waited anxiously for the congregation’s response. Immediately some moved forward to embrace her; then the service continued and Karen joined other volunteers in serving communion.

Several summers ago, I visited the early medieval monastic site of Glendalough with students and faculty from a seminary in Dublin. The site dates back to the sixth century, when St....

Each time “someone clicks on a Web page, makes a phone call, uses a credit card, or checks in with a microchipped pass at work, that person leaves a data trail that can later be tracked....

One of the things I love about the liturgical life of the church is the way that the Holy Spirit, quietly and gently, works on us....

They were no angels. Whatever else they did or didn’t do, or hoped to do, they hired strippers....

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On the morning of October 10, 2006, a 33-year-old ...

If social democracy is ever again to be taken seriously in this country, its proponents have to admit that much of th...

In the present confusion over religion and public life—and the accompanying opportunism—the life and car...

Two stories run through this book....

Christians can be quite good at feeling guilty....

If Abe Lincoln were to once again borrow from Jesus—but for C-SPAN’s cameras—he might say, “A house divided again...

Fashioned from a book by Jon Krakauer, Sean Penn’s Into the Wild is an elegiac film about Christopher Johnson McCandless, who, upon graduating from Emory University in 1990, set out, without...

During almost 20 years of pastoral ministry I have served three different congregations that experienced such long-term decline and loss that it seemed as if the “end of the world” was upon us: the...

My wife and I were in the Atlanta airport this summer when she stopped at a newsstand to pick up a magazine....

The Chicago Cubs have done it again. After winning the National League’s central division, they were swept aside by the Arizona Diamondbacks....

When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran visited Columbia University, he was introduced as a “a petty and cruel dictator” by his host, the school’s president, Lee Bollinger....

Back to your roots: EcoEternity is offering a green form of burial: for a price the company will place a person’s remains in a biodegradable urn and plant it beside a mature tree. In time, the remains will be soaked up by the tree’s root system.

The weekly death tolls in Iraq have recently decreased—for four reasons: The U.S....