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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 14, 2014

Religious leaders struggle to reach ’emerging adults’

When leaders of traditional faith groups think about reaching out to Millennials, religious seekers, unaffiliated...

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 16, 2014

A wry case for using beer in evangelism

While he knows that millions of teetotalling Christians disagree, Father William Miller believes he can...

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 26, 2014

British rabbi stands to defend America’s first freedom

When Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks arrived in America recently representatives of the United States government...

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...

May 05, 2014

Dueling saints from the Second Vatican Council?

History will show St. John XXIII was a pastor with an "exquisite openness to the...

April 2014

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 07, 2014

The World Vision same-sex marriage wars of 2014

When church historians review the 2014 World Vision wars over gay marriage, they will ponder...

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 10, 2014

The evolving state of Mormon heaven

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

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...

February 17, 2014

President Obama defends religious freedom — overseas

From the moment he rose to speak at the National Prayer Breakfast, it was clear...

January 2014

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...

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...

December 09, 2013

The man from Buenos Aires vs. dead Catholic museums

BUENOS AIRES -- It's hard to wrestle with the crucial moral and cultural issues in...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

Guess the winner: Woodstock vs. religious liberty

Blame it on Woodstock. Cultural changes unleashed by the sexual revolution are affecting how millions...

November 11, 2013

‘The Exorcist’ — Taking incarnate evil seriously for 40 years

In the middle of a New York Magazine dialogue on heaven and hell, damnation and...

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...

October 21, 2013

Military chaplains on Sexual Revolution front lines

It was in 1775 that General George Washington authorized chaplains in the Continental Army. "Purity...

October 14, 2013

A growing hole in the middle of American Jewry

There is a Yiddish saying about the mysteries of faith, family and fellowship that, loosely...

October 07, 2013

Hellish flashbacks on the Christian persecution front

Churches were burning in Pakistan, while African Christians died and radical forms of Islam threatened...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Concerning God, sex, worship and babies

Pollsters have been asking Americans questions about God, sex and babies for a long time...

September 16, 2013

The evil the church already knows in Syria

For days, Christians with ties to Syria waited for news about the fighting in Maaloula,...

September 09, 2013

Lessons learned by professional church spies

The first thing Chuck Lawless noticed when he entered the church foyer was that the...