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The Consultation on Church Union (COCU), pronounced dead more than once over the past 40 years, is indeed about to die....

Hopeful Realism: Reclaiming the Poetry of Theology, by Douglas F. Ottati...

The protesters who came to Washington, D.C., in April to rally against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund prophetically denounced global inequities and defended the cause of the poo...

On January 1 the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden began a new era of independence from the Swedish government....

Standing on a dusty Nairobi roundabout amid exhaust fumes and blaring horns, several hundred young men raise their hands north to the unseen shrine of Kerinyaga, or Mount Kenya—the second-highest m...

When I first went to church, when I was about 15, I found myself in a hymn-singing tradition. When I began to write hymns in the 1960s it was natural for me to follow that tradition. I think that a congregational song, or a hymn—which is a lyric that develops a theme or tells a story which unfolds over more than two or three stanzas—can be in any kind of musical style.

While I was visiting Fort Worth, Texas, recently, I walked into a used bookstore on North 8th Street—the kind of place where you can fall into a time warp, forgetting where you are until you hear t...

Blood Rituals: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries, by Orlando Patterson...

On a recent trip to the University of Notre Dame to speak at a conference on “Religion, Spirituality and Business,” I stopped at a toll-road fast-food, fast-fuel station....

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul....

Feminist and Womanist Pastoral Theology, edited by Bonnie Miller-McLemore and Brita Gill-Austern...

As a symbol of scientific genius, Albert Einstein the public icon has had as great an effect on 20th-century thought as his theories have had on modern science....

Perhaps only natives understand the religion that is Texas high school football. Nevertheless, the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to rule on one of its striking rituals: the pregame invocation....

When United Methodist delegates take their seats at the church’s May 2-12 General Conference in Cleveland, they’ll be facing decisions on 2,500 or more pieces of legislation, including a far-reachi...

At least two other denominations are dealing with issues related to homosexuality at meetings this summer....

To the best of my knowledge, the early church dispensed with the kosher food laws of Judaism for two distinct but closely related reasons....

Cleopas and his unnamed (female?) companion get all the credit....

It’s a puzzle: the Christian Coalition is fighting off extinction, but the Religious Right seems as powerful as ever....

Having surveyed in previous articles the variety of theological conversations in Britain—ranging across patristics, history, philosophy, biblical interpretation, literature and the arts, the natura...

Easter is upon us. The dogwoods, fruit trees and azaleas are dazzling our eyes. My students and I are reading texts by Theodore of Mopsuestia....