In my most recent column I drew attention to the certainty gap between American evangelicals and mainline Protestants. While ...

For the last three months, I have been part of a weekly clergy and faith leader’s prayer vigil that holds space and bears ...

Given the state of public affairs in these riven United States, I too frequently find myself in a foaming-at-the-mouth froth ...

The IRS recently announced it would no longer enforce the Johnson Amendment. The amendment, passed in 1954, bears the name of ...

The biblical figure of Samson has long been understood as a man of brute strength, a warrior on the margins of society whose story is often defined by violence and destruction. Yet alongside his ...

After Becky Hope left the evangelical church she had been attending in Portland, Oregon, four years ago, she began watching online services at an ecumenical church in New York City — just for a little ...

Step into the streets of Nazareth, the famed hometown of Jesus, and the smell of garbage overwhelms the senses. Along the streets, trash is piled high on every corner; the city government can no ...

I am grateful to two people I have never met.  The first is Ali Khan, a physician in Little Rock, Ark. I became acquainted ...

If the Scopes “Monkey” Trial is discussed nowadays, the tone usually is pejorative. The events of July 1925 — in which a ...

I was a fifth-year senior, which was one of the most embarrassing times of my life. It meant I hadn’t finished high school in ...

I was sitting on my back porch, watching some early Fourth of July fireworks but not feeling at all patriotic as I pondered ...

Earlier this summer, I was holed up in my temporary dorm room at Converse University, groaning at my laptop while my students ...