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O'Connor's artistic signature involved a severity of image, dark-as-night humor, and a relentless preoccupation with sacramental violence.

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

Many cities contain an almost fully representative presence of world Christianity. These are new laboratories for global Christian unity.

I sometimes envy my colleagues whose denominations have already fought this issue out, voted and moved on. We Disciples don't work that way.

With some reluctance, I decided to read Proof of Heaven. I was surprised when my first reaction was positive.

In the fifth row first seat there was a slight boy named Matthew. He could not sit still under any circumstances whatsoever.

We can learn a lot from interdisciplinary conversation. But we are sometimes puzzled by how our colleagues know what they seem to know.

In the pristine white glare of the airport corridor, the linoleum became my prayer rug. But my solitude was short lived.

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

The American hospice movement is thriving. But its growth has tended to neglect African Americans.

At 52 I was lead pastor of a large, vibrant church. Then I was diagnosed with ALS, and I began to call on my faith community in a new way.

For my money, John’s is the only Gospel in which Jesus seems really lonely.

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

A new law in Durham makes standing in the highway median illegal. One night in March, six pastors broke the law by panhandling there.

Our age doesn't need theoretical answers to intellectual challenges of belief. It needs personal responses to people's spiritual problems. 

Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon in massive numbers. The situation threatens to overwhelm a country already struggling to maintain a delicate peace.

When Will Campbell replied to my letter, I expected him to call me to fight “the Enemy.” Instead he encouraged me to love my enemies.

We need a more developed theological ethics of what it means to live in an age when so much information about ourselves is so readily available.

Faith House wants people to engage other faiths—not by focusing on commonalities but by entering into a sacred space on its own terms.

"I eventually realized that leaders are not made by books or workshops," says Lisa Yebuah of Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. "Leaders are people who marry their knowledge to action."