A lmost every religion makes statements or claims that are in harmony with some statements or claims of other faith traditions. For instance, the basic idea of what's called the Golden Rule is found ...

I was not a "missionary kid" when I lived for two years of my boyhood in India. My parents, after all, weren't missionaries sent by a church or a Christian missionary society. Rather, my father was ...

As journalist Anne Applebaum writes in this story in the current issue of The Atlantic about the ongoing war in Sudan: "Statistics are sometimes used to express the scale of the destruction in Sudan.

What I want to say about the recent death of my first wife, Marcia Albright, has only a little to do with our almost-27-year marriage, how and why it ended or our post-marital relationship. (The link ...

Murder is against the law everywhere. Even one of the Ten Commandments (see Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17) forbids it.

Before I tell you about this incredible new book that recounts the history of The National Catholic Reporter, I feel a need to disclose my several connections to this courageous and resourceful ...

After some 11 years, the senior pastor of my congregation left almost three years ago to become the senior pastor of the American Church in Paris. Months later we hired a transitional pastor, whose ...

The recent trial, conviction and sentencing of the man who murdered 11 worshipers and wounded six more at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 has, once again, put the spotlight on resurgent antisemitism in ...

C edar Monroe knows what it means to be called "poor white trash," and has decided to have none of it anymore. Monroe understands that such labels reflect an economy and political and racial systems ...

What Christianity calls the Nicene Creed is turning 1,700 years old this year, and in some ways that anniversary is raising questions about the value of creeds in any religion and why even the most ...