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A cynical little demon perched on my shoulder as I began reading Philip Jenkins's Laying Down the Sword, which is more Old Testament exegesis and hermeneutics than anything else.

“I like to think I’m a grassroots organizer," says Isaac S. Villegas of Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship. "I rearrange pews; I find people to make sloppy joes for hungry people.”

c. 2012 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Peter Goodwin, the first doctor in Oregon to campaign...

c. 2012 Religion News Service HARRISBURG, Pa. (RNS) The billboard is down, but the issue's not gone....

(ENInews)--A film detailing atrocities committed by the Northern Uganda rebel leader Joseph Kony has become an Internet sensation, but faith leaders in...

c. 2012 Religion News Service MOBILE, Ala. (RNS) With 98 percent of state precincts counted, Roy Moore held on...

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) After more than a year of planning, atheists in the military will stage a...

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) Does Rick Santorum's Southern surge also herald the return of the Religious Right?...

Why is it so hard to do religion in prime time?...

Two similar pieces are getting a lot of play this week: James Whittaker’s blog post about why he left Google and Greg Smith’s op-ed about why he left Goldman Sachs. Both talk of their high level of company loyalty and enthusiasm in the past. Both bemoan the changes in their respective corporate cultures that led them to leave. Neither seems all that hopeful about his company’s future. What neither of them does, however, is demonstrate that the problem is that Google/Goldman Sachs used to care about more than just making money but doesn’t anymore.

New today from the Century: Interview with Isaac Villegas, Marty on Wood on Chesterton, more.

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that we talk a lot about the future of the church--how we need to move into a time of innovation as well as transformation. Dennis Sanders recently reflected on this post, and I asked him if I could put his comments here.

Ralph Wood, who calls himself a Bapto-Catholic, is certainly qualified to write on the militant Catholic Chester­ton, who seldom withheld his fire and fury except when he settled for expressing disdain for Protestantism and other "unorthodox" versions of Christianity.

“Online, I minister to people I may never see. But I am starting a conversation that may lead them to a church.”

c. 2012 Religion News Service Bridgeport, Conn. (RNS) The Catholic bishop leading the push against the White...

It's Thursday afternoon or later, and Sunday is coming....

There must have been some Lutherans sitting in that conference room when the Revised Common Lectionary was birthed. That is the only explanation that I can come up with for Ephesians 2:1-10 having a role on the Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year B.

New today from the Century: Interview with Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Lutheranism in the lectionary, more.

In a blog post at the Wall Street Journal, Conor Dougherty describes a video game behavior that demonstrates what Century writer Scott Paeth calls "a distaste for playing evil." According to Dougherty, gamers are finding ways to take some of the most violent games and tweak characters or characters' behavior so that they participate in the game with one notable difference--they don't kill.

Video games have the potential to aid in forming us as moral beings, for better and for worse.