One of the nation's oldest continuously published social justice magazines ceased publication Jan. 1, falling to the same social and economic forces that have decimated other non-profit organizations and periodicals in recent years.
John Helmiere was severely beaten by Seattle police while demonstrating peacefully with Occupy West Coast at the Port of Seattle. Despite his experience, he urges Christians to practice love and non-violence.
Everything at Christmas is about "home." The commercials on Christmas are all about home. And of course tying “home” into spending money. But a true home for Christians at Christmas is much different.
The National Council of Churches honors five U.S. congregations for their special enthusiasm and exemplary efforts at building bridges between different faiths.
A majority of the more than 200 faith-based lobbying groups in Washington, DC, today are related to conservative or evangelical organizations, according to a new study by the Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life.
Hopes for a major turnout of faith representatives were dashed at an opening event for this week's climate conference, but those who attended were energized by Archbishop Desmond Tutu's speech.
Church World Service executive Rev. John McCullough urges the Obama Administration to make good on past U.S. promises regarding funding and support for climate change responses in developing countries.
The latest edition of an annual report on church giving shows that American Christians are doing a poor job of caring for the most vulnerable and spreading the gospel.
Not everyone holds history in high regard, and even those who do express deep concern that nations and governments do not seem to learn from it. Yet history holds four profound lessons that are urgent for us today, writes columnist Thomas Lane Butts.
We who Occupy don’t have a “clear message,” because we are the clear message. We’re the canary in the coal mine. We’re the first responders to the American economy blowing up, to the tragic break in the system.
Christians, Muslims and Jews across the country plan vigils for Nov. 20 to pray for the members of the congressional "super committee" to create a federal budget that protects the nation's most vulnerable citizens.
David Shasha critiques New York Times' columnist David Brooks' arguments for elitism as absurd contentions that trivialize the morals of great religious traditions.
Retired pastor and civil rights activist Gilbert H. Caldwell harks back to a time of racial prejudice in responding to United Methodist bishops' vow to uphold their denomination's anti-gay stances.
Activists led by environmentalist Bill McKibben, including people of faith, succeeded in convincing President Obama to halt a license for the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline by sending it back to the U.S. State Department for a more thorough climate change review.
Thomas L. Shanklin reflects on the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in light of Jesus' teachings of radical hospitality shown in Matthew 14:15-18.
Interreligious prayer vigils to pray for Congress and the nation's vulnerable citizens during budget deliberations have resumed on the lawn on the United Methodist Building on Capitol Hill.
The world is rapidly changing. And as surely as one day follows the next, Christian theology, as it always has (slavery, anyone?), will change right along with it. As our world grows smaller, our Christianity will grow larger, broader, more inclusive.
Abolition 2000, a coalition of some 2,000 organizations that want to abolish nuclear weapons, met recently in Geneva, Switzerland to rate progress in the global anti-nuclear movement.
The new Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism (GlobeTheoLib) contains several hundred thousands of articles, documents and other academic resources that can accessed online free-of-charge by registered participants from anywhere in the world via Internet.
Church and state intersect in plenty of ways this week, from the U.S. Supreme Court hearing a labor case on the "ministerial execution" to the barbarity of state-sponsored executions.
Interfaith dialogue, including currently fraught relations between Israelis and Palestinians, might be more successful if an overlooked common Jewish-Arabic heritage were revived.
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