The past 25 years have been rough for churches and other houses of worship in the US.The median worship attendance dropped by ...

In a historic breakthrough, three women were allowed to sit for the Israeli rabbinate’s competency exams earlier this ...

The crowning stupidity of our age (at the time of writing) is the current war with Iran. No one prosecuting it seems able to ...

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Poet Marilyn Nelson strips away nostalgia to reveal a congregation shaped as much by slavery, doubt, and culture as ...

I am grateful for adoptee and birth-parent writers helping churches speak more honestly about adoption, including Kristin T.

Tony Stoneburner (1926–2026) was a professor of English at Denison University and a United Methodist minister. He contributed ...

People often respond not to the person in front of them but to reverberations from the past.

One reason these wellness practices are popular is because they’re powerful and they remake us,” says religious ethicist ...

Thomas Tweed makes the Horn Shelter Man one of the first actors in his masterful new survey of American religious history.

An international research team has recovered 42 lost pages from Codex H, a sixth-century Greek New Testament manuscript of St ...

But Aquinas’s work was not about debating atheists. He was writing in 13th-­century Europe, where his readers were a bunch of ...