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Two years before he died, Reinhold Niebuhr published one of his best-known articles. He didn't write it alone.

We all live out our lives in the wilderness.

"I once asked a panel of students about relationships—were they seeing anyone? Did they feel like they had to break up before graduation? They looked at me as if I had been speaking Greek."

Equal marriage is a social experiment of yet unknown proportions. No wonder we are confused.

Lisa Belkin, Christian Smith and others have raised concerns about campus sexual culture. We asked several college chaplains to comment on their assessment.

When Scott Sorrentino's church started talking about a new "debt annihilation" program, his ears perked up.

Following doesn't command the interest that leading does. But following is crucial.

The thing about serving as a prophet is that you are forever stuck between what God wants and what the people want.

When clergy meet regularly in a "community of practice," they find that trust develops, anxieties diminish, and challenges turn into occasions for learning.

Impulsively, I e-mailed three other clergywomen and invited them to participate in a writing group. Their responses came quickly and enthusiastically: Yes. I'm in. I need this.

Each week my church includes a prayer for the families of American soldiers who have died. As the names are read, I try to hold them in prayer. But I have wrestled with these prayers.

In Bosnia, I was reminded that the God who shows up at communion is a God who brazenly seeks us out of the crowd.

"If the bishop admits to knowing that I was gay, then she gets in trouble. The system is set up so that truth will not be told."

At American synagogues, Israeli settlement leader Ron Nachman gets a lot of questions. At churches he gets big checks.