A Vietnamese monk who became an internet hit last year is going international.Thich Minh Tue, 44, is on a 1,650-mile barefoot ...

Sarah Coakley explores ruptures on the cross, in the Eucharist, in Spirit-filled people, and between Judaism and ...

Richard Hays, a renowned New Testament scholar and former dean of Duke Divinity School known for his influential books on ...

A new Pew Research Center report on the religious composition of the 119th session of Congress reveals that the majority of ...

The women who would be war heroes For many Americans, the tears never stopped. While the 1973 Paris Peace Accords stilled the ...

Look here,” he showed me, “all these buds. I’ll be cutting off what could be flowers.”It was January in western Pennsylvania, windy, cold with freezing temperatures prepared to stay.   But the man who ...

Reflecting on the life and work of John Boswell Cobb, Jr., who died on December 26, is no simple task. To call him a theologian, philosopher, or environmentalist feels insufficient. Cobb was all of ...

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When Mississippi seceded from the Union in 1861, its Declaration of the Immediate Causes proclaimed the absolute necessity of slavery, which produced the goods necessary to the world’s commerce and ...

Early the next morning we walk the ruins of the Temple. Mortals win the kind of eternity for which their lives prepare them, I told Jesus, quoting, I think, Socrates. Someone once said to me, But ...

Promises are lovely. When they’re made with honesty and kept with reliability, they form the substructure of healthy relationships, the backbone of a well-­functioning society. “Cross my heart and ...

Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, was known most as the 39th president of the United States. But he also will be remembered as the world’s most famous Sunday school teacher. Carter, who spoke ...