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If God is both the author and lover of creation, why would God develop complex beings through a process that necessitates species extinction?

Turkey may be a model for the rest of the Middle East, but the country faces deep problems. And religion is not at these problems' core.

Believers and nonbelievers alike are often reticent to talk about religion. Yet many people long for such conversations.

Climate change will bring a laundry list of catastrophes to Africa. Across the continent, people are trying to adapt to the changing weather.

Drones expose the deficiencies of seeing war as a matter of annihilation. The rules of just war are more crucial than ever. 

Divorce is a time when we most need our brothers and sisters in faith. Yet churches and clergy often ignore divorcing people.

"We are the 99 percent" was a brilliant rallying cry. But those five words were Occupy's essential contribution, and they came at the start.

For some churches in North Dakota, the oil boom is a threat. For others it's an opportunity to relate to new neighbors.

"We aren't the first people to experience God as the slice and the stitches at the exact same time. The paradox is ancient. Jesus embodied it."

We youth ministers have often tried to make our ministries cool enough to compete. But every teen knows that the church is not cool.

In preparing the new PCUSA hymnal, our committee may have made some wrong decisions. But they weren't careless or cavalier ones.

Many churchgoers greet the announcement of a new hymnal with a single puzzled, even outraged question: Why?

Our spring books issue's reviews include Stanley Hauerwas on David Gushee, Shirley Hershey Showalter on Sonia Sotomayor, Ralph Wood on Rowan Williams and more.

I switched to a digital Bible for ease and versatility. But I gave something up: a sense of the sweeping history of God's engagement with God's people.

Our spring books issue includes the following annotated lists of new titles: Old Testament, theology and ethics.

Might Christian nostalgia—wrapped in a cape dress and sealed with a kiss—have an interest in the future as well as the past?

What reading do ministers rely on for inspiration or help in preaching—apart from commentaries or other materials directly related to the task?

When you buy a used book, it's like joining a conversation in progress—a conversation that may outlast you.

"Letter from Birmingham Jail" at 50

Nowhere has our callow politics asserted itself more thoughtlessly and noisily than in the politicization of personal or private life.