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July 2014

July 21, 2014

Growing tensions on the Faith and Family Left

It was one of those symbolic questions that pollsters toss into the mix when probing...

July 07, 2014

Pain, hope and schisms in the long Anglican wars

Anglicans seem to be hopeful about their flocks in the United States, even if the...

July 01, 2014

Clergy, temptation, sex abuse and the law

Surely one of our world's most endangered species -- right up there with the Mountain...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

Sobering words define a young priest’s life

As sermons go, it was not the kind of pulpit performance that -- when it...

June 02, 2014

Pope, patriarch, primacy and the press

The Holy Land pilgrimage by Pope Francis contained plenty of symbolic gestures, photo ops and...

May 2014

May 19, 2014

The quest for safe, generic, ‘ceremonial’ prayers

As the members of the Town of Greece Board prepared for business, a local Catholic...

April 2014

April 28, 2014

Year 26: Frustrated Catholics playing ‘Name that pope’

Soon after Pope Francis skyrocketed into media superstardom, some frustrated Catholics started playing an online...

April 21, 2014

An honest Easter with doubters and the ‘nones’

It's the first thing people do after meeting strangers in coffee shops and clubs favored...

April 14, 2014

Building a new monastery in the isles of Celtic giants

Father Seraphim Aldea is so committed to building the first Orthodox monastery in the Scottish...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

Praying for better journalism at The New York Times

NEW YORK -- It was a perfectly ordinary invitation to gather for Christian fellowship, the...

March 17, 2014

Time for another rant about Lent

With Ash Wednesday behind them, online friends of Hollywood screenwriter Barbara Nicolosi braced themselves for...

March 10, 2014

The evolving state of Mormon heaven

It takes lots of praying, preaching and singing to mourn a president of the Church...

March 03, 2014

The pope and the Pentecostal smartphone

The image projected onto the giant screen above the recent Kenneth Copeland Ministries conference was...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

Faith and the Millennials — it’s complicated

LOS ANGELES -- When pollster David Kinnaman went to college two decades ago, his Generation...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Culture wars in the App Store (and what they mean)

In a career packed with sound bites, the late Steve Jobs offered one of his...

January 20, 2014

Baptists rethinking the use of catechisms (plural)?

This joke may be the most famous in all of Baptist humor. While crossing a...

January 13, 2014

Duck! Elderly patriarchs discussing doctrine!

This elderly patriarch's image is certainly striking, with his stern face and a gray beard...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

What would Pope Francis pick as top 2013 news story?

Popes come and popes go, with a new pope elected every few years or decades....

December 23, 2013

Telling the Nativity story, with help of two foster boys

Night after night, Jesse and Kelly Cone led their children through some of the most...

December 16, 2013

Eye to eye with Mother Teresa (farewell to Scripps Howard)

Mother Teresa was having a bad press conference. Journalists gathered for her 1989 Denver visit...

November 2013

November 18, 2013

Classic Billy Graham, at 95 years of age

The Rev. Billy Graham has been worried about the state of America's soul for a...

November 04, 2013

‘Backsliders’ and the ‘unchurched’ equal the ‘Nones’?

Old-school preachers used to call them "backsliders," those folks who were raised in the pews...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

Unusual challenge from a Greek Orthodox bishop

It happens all the time: Church leaders stand at podiums and urge members of their...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

The pope, the media and balance on pro-life ministries

It was the telephone call heard around the world, because the pope made the call....

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Goodbye to a radical Baptist patriarch

The old Southern preacher had walked through many airport security gates using his cherry-wood cane...

July 15, 2013

Rather faith-free WPost story about ministry to the hungry

As happens about this time every summer, tmatt headed to the Southern Highlands to take...

June 2013

June 10, 2013

Making a case for the common hymnal

There was a time when the faithful in the heavily Dutch corners of the Midwest...

May 2013

May 20, 2013

An earthy reality in the words of Pope Francis

There is nothing unusual about a Catholic leader urging priests to draw closer to their...

April 2013

April 15, 2013

Old religion-beat questions linger, even after 25 years

Every year or so, editors are asked to sit patiently while market researchers dissect thick...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Hot words in top 2012 religion stories

'Twas the Sunday night before the election and the Rev. Robert Jeffress was offering a...