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Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, the most successful Islamist party to emerge from the Arab Spring revolts early in this decade, has left political Islam and declared that its members will operate in th...
Millions of people in several eastern and southern African nations are facing malnutrition, disease, and other harm as a result of El Niño–related extreme weather patterns: drought in late 2015 and...
Eugene B. Borowitz, a leader and theologian in Reform Judaism, died January 22 at age 91.
...Daniel O. Aleshire, executive director of the Association of Theological Schools, announced that he will retire before June 30, 2017.
...Jennifer Butler, CEO of the strategy group Faith in Public Life, recently became chair of the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neigh...
Llan Carlos Dávila, a leader in church-based efforts against chemical mining in southeastern Guatemala, came to the United States for a speaking tour in October.
...Fires damaged several churches—of different denominations, but most with predominantly black congregations—within a few miles of one another in northwest St....
Despite pleas by Pope Francis, theologian Jürgen Moltmann, pastors, professors, and fellow inmates, Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 47, was executed by the state of Georgia on September 30.
...This academic year will be the last year J. R....
When eight pastors in Fountain Hills, Arizona, were planning a joint sermon series called “‘Progressive’ Christianity: Fact or Fiction?” they didn’t invite a local pastor who had cowritten a curric...
Fred B. Craddock, a preeminent teacher and practitioner of preaching, died March 6 at age 86 in Blue Ridge, Georgia. He had been ill with Parkinson’s disease.
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