A remarkable new book -- one of the best I've read in a long time -- confirms something I've said more than once here on the blog and in other venues: If your theology causes you to devalue, ...

When I was in Berkeley, Calif., recently to celebrate my birthday with my wife and two of my three sisters (one couldn't be there, though she alleged she wanted to be), I attended worship at St.

In the conversations (a polite word for it) Americans have been having about race in recent years, especially since the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, it's not been unusual ...

The Christian Science Monitor has done this nice piece from Turkey about the Sufi poet Rumi, who, 800 years after his birth, is one of the most popular and best-selling poets in the U.S. His mystic ...

One of the consistent threads running through the theology of many, if not most, of the world's religions is that human beings can be -- and often are -- sinful. Which is to say that they do things ...

ABIQUIU, N.M.-- In her book, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, what my friend Kathleen Norris says of the Dakotas can be said also of northern New Mexico: "The region requires that you wrestle with it ...

A few weeks ago here on the blog, I wrote about why our American government keeps track of religious liberty in other countries and puts pressure on violators of religious freedom. With that as ...

Antisemitism has been called -- with much justification -- the oldest hatred. A book to read about the history of this systemic bigotry is Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, by David Nirenberg. I ...

The running story about Christianity in the United States for at least the last half century has been about decline in church membership coupled with a growing segment of the population that ...

Late last week I noted the release a new 10-nation study about Pentecostals and gave you a link to that report from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Maybe you've had a chance to look it over ...

In a few weeks we will mark the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. It was the event that kicked off a long series of protests around ...

Some of the best recent reporting on the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church and on how the church is responding has been coming from the Associated Press. For instance, last month, in this ...