There is a future for denominationalism, affirmed one Southern Baptist missiologist. But Christians should not assume that denominations are necessary for the mission of God.

Social conservatives are calling upon Christians in California to rally against a bill that would pressure schools into honoring the late Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in a major city.

A ministry working with persecuted Christians launched a campaign Tuesday against a U.N. resolution that many human rights groups say can be manipulated to oppress religious minorities living in Muslim-majority countries.

A medical doctor from Costa Rica, a nurse from Ecuador, and a biochemist from Brazil are among the professionals who will become bi-vocational missionaries through a new mission training program targeted at Latin American believers.

While a media outlets around the world are touting a nearly two-decade-old find as the oldest known skeleton of a potential human ancestor, creationists point out that even the team of researchers who unveiled the reconstructed fossil cannot refute the

Representatives from faith communities nationwide met recently with the director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships to discuss the ongoing violence in the northeast African nation of Sudan.

The governing board of the National Council of Churches is calling for †civility in public discourse†in light of the intensity of angry and sometimes violent language coming out of public meetings on health care and other issues.

Award-winning gospel duo BeBe and CeCe Winans released their first album in more than 15 years Tuesday after months of anticipation.

A: My wife used to say that we're all going to be surprised when we get to heaven because we'll see people there that we never expected to see!

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To put it bluntly, I feel that American women religious are being bullied."

What brand of feminism? Kathleen Sprows Cummings has written a very entertaining essay on the tensions and compatibilities between feminism and Catholicism ("Do Women Have Souls?" (...)

Reasonable people can disagree about the merits of same-sex marriage. Reasonable people should recognize, though, that the adoption of same-sex marriage will bring a wave of religious-liberty (...)

That's the number of people who will starve this year--more than ever before.

Who are your peers? Or, more precisely, whom do you consider your peers? And are they the same folks you would want to sit in judgment of you on a jury? These provocative questions animate Elaine (...)

The simple habit of saying "thank you," and the notion of gratitude that underlies it, can be a key to understanding many of the basic assumptions, preferences, and needs of Western (...)

When Henry James wrote, "It's a complex fate, being an American," he must have had the subject of Alex Beam's book in mind. James would have savored its opening scene at the (...)