About 72 percent of Americans say legal recognition of same-sex marriage is “inevitable,” according to a survey released Thursday. About 72 percent of Americans say legal recogni ...

When it comes to mass communication, Christians do some things well and some things horribly. Here’s a breakdown. When it comes to mass communication, Christians do some things we ...

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Watch Neale Bayly Rides: Peru, on Speed Channel starting Sunday, June 9, at 9 p.m. ET, and follow the adventure at NealeBaylyRides.com. Look for follow up articles from James as the show progresses. ...

Dominos UK expriments with drone that can deliver pizza. The pace of U.S. drone strikes is dramatically slowing. During the month of May, there was one strike in Pakistan and one ...

As we go through life, most of us manage to acquire some small measure of expertise about daily living. In general, the more times we’ve had to undertake a task, the better we get at it. ...

After years of fights over religious monuments on public land, a county courthouse in Northern Florida will soon be the home of the nation’s first monument to atheism on public property. ...

Breaking with another centuries-old tradition established by his predecessors, Pope Francis will remain in Rome during the summer and endure the usually stifling heat of the Eternal City. ...

The Rev. Will D. Campbell, a Baptist minister and early white civil rights activist, as well as best-selling writer and folksy raconteur, died Monday in Nashville, Tenn. He was 88. ...

Rabbi Sidney Schwarz, ordained in the liberal Reconstructionist tradition, sees a divide between generations of American Jews that could spell disaster for the community. Rabbi Si ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Elvis impersonators make lousy terrorists. WITH SO MANY of our sacred institutions collapsing f ...

(verse 17): “Lord, in your name, even the demons submit to us!” His reaction is fascinating. He doesn’t ... 20). [ July 14 ] Rescued from Darkness Amos 7:7-17; Psalm 25:1-10; Colossians ... cross” (1:16-17, 19-20). Those caught up in this vision of inclusion read all scriptures in its light. ...

Dawn Araujo Five questions for Susan Burton. Bio: Founder of A New Way of Life Reentry Project in Califor ...

Bobbi Buchanan Anonymity. Köhler Books INTRIGUING AND believable characters are part of what makes Janna McMa ...

Jason Howard Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christians Pilgrimage in Search of God in America. Harper TWO Y ...

central thesis will present puzzles. He describes 17 such puzzles and gives his final answer to nine ... 11:10, 14:4, 14:17). God in this telling shows no regard for the sacredness of human life. Gushee also ...

June 4, 2013 Sojo in the News George Mitrovich ...

Gareth Higgins The History Channel's The Bible, like so much of so-callled "religious pop culture," seemed to be the produ ...

Danny Duncan Collum According to Wendell Berry, all you need to have hope is one good example. WENDELL BERR ...

Star Trek: Into Darkness is a fascinating and complicated story that is well worth watching. Instead of providing a summary, I want to explore three related aspects of the movie: sacrifice, blood, and hope for ...

Julie Polter Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can—and Should—Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids by Nico ...

Brittany Shoot As the Lean In debate shows, striving for gender equality is still personal and political—and vital. ...

Gene Fox From the midst of the nether world I cried for help.  —from the Book of Jonah A gray whale blows off Cardiff Beach, just beyond the glamour homes, boutiques, an ...

Mary Theresa Webb An interview with Sen. Ehab El Kharrat, a Christian member of Egypt's Parliament, on why he sees the country as a ...

in the quiet, perhaps for a word from God. My favorite song then was based on Zephaniah 3:17: “The Lord your ...

Gregg Brekke Arab Christians are vital to a thriving Middle East - and their numbers are dwindling. LIKE MANY ...

The Jewish Federations of North America announced Monday that its trustees had passed a resolution in favor of a nonsegregated place where men and women can pray and read from the Torah at the Western Wall, th ...

The Editors The Predator and Reaper drones in most common use by the CIA and U.S. military carry 500-pound GPS-guided bombs or Hellfire missiles. The bombs can destroy whole neighb ...

Is there anything morally redeeming about Game of Thrones? Does the hit HBO series even have a moral vision? Is there anything morally redeeming about  Game of Thrones ? Does t ...

Steve Holt More than 1,000 civilians have been killed by U.S. drone strikes. Obama, technology, and the myth of redemptive violence. ...

Duane Shank Under Christian ethics, drone warfare is neither just nor moral. SOME CHRISTIANS seeking moral gu ...

While I affirm the right of any Christian to boycott a product, show, or the like, and even to explain why in the public square, I’m weary of the heavy-handed tendency of Christians to slap the “anti-Christian ...

David Swanson How Jerry Falwell's Liberty U.—the world's largest Christian university—became an evangelist for drone warfare.  ...

Jim Rice Even at their best, toys like the American Girl Dolls send a mixed message. WHEN MY DAUGHTER, Jessic ...

Editor’s Note: The following poem by Trevor Scott Barton was written while he was living in Africa and reading The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi. Editor ’ ...

Six British Christian peace activists were arrested for protesting drones. Six British Christian peace activists were arrested and detained for 24 hours for protesting at the RAF ...

New Pakistani prime minister calls for an end to U.S. drone strikes. In what was largely a formality following last month’s popular elections, Pakistan’s parliament yesterday elec ...

Richard Rohr Our Script Matters THE FUNCTION of healthy religion and church is to provide individuals and soc ...

Luke 7:11-17 , Jesus confronts the economic systems of his own time and provides an unexpected kind ... of Nain in  Luke 7:11-17 , however, breaks a number of the patterns we expect to see around ...

David Cortright Working with the U.N. for a negotiated settlement has a greater chance of success than military involvement. ...

Jim Wallis Religious extremism will not be defeated by a primarily military response. TODAY THE Middle East—w ...

In less than 12 months, we re-established a friendship and Mike and his wife, Nancy, taught me amazing lessons about living with the prospect of dying.   My friend Mike died la ...

Jim Wallis Jim Wallis’ newest book, On God’s Sid ...

In his remarks at the National Defense University two weeks ago, President Obama stopped just one sentence short of declaring an end to the so-called “war on terror.” This is and always was a misnomer. It is a ...

Christianity can quickly devolve into caste systems, where faith communities are divided by the haves and the have-nots, the rich and the poor. Instead of unifying ourselves in Christ, we are dividing ourselve ...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has elected its first openly gay bishop, the Rev. R. Guy Erwin, to oversee churches in Southern California, four years after the church allowed openly gay men and les ...

For the Rev. Ernest Easley, the decision to cut ties with the Boy Scouts was simple. For the Rev. Ernest Easley, the decision to cut ties with the Boy Scouts was simple. The Bi ...

Mayors Against Illegal Guns is buidling grassroots organizations across the country. Mayors Against Illegal Guns is buidling grassroots organizations across the country. After set ...

The effect of drone strikes on traditional tribal societies. Akbar Ahmed, Islamic Studies chair at American University, writes in the New York Times this morning about the eff ...