Catherine Conybeare’s new biography reveals a bishop formed by two worlds, two languages, and a church struggling to ...

Jeremiah 31:7-14 or Sirach 24:1-12 (Psalm 147:12-20 or Wisdom of Solomon 10:15-21); Ephesians 1:3-14; John 1:(1-9), 10-18 ...

After Israel banned 37 humanitarian groups from operating in the Gaza Strip for their failure to comply with new registration ...

In his holiday sermon at the Pentagon, Graham cited scripture as a justification for war. But what if Samuel got ...

You gather up the grayof this dull January day,then, just before the hidden sunshould setyou open the horizonsewing streaks ...

Today a cardinal poured out of the woods, redderthan arterial blood. When my husband died, I got cardssaying this slash of ...

To be God’s people is to be caught up in parable, in story and storytelling.

Jesus is even identified as the “son of Mary” in the Qur’an (Q 19:34), a subversion of the typical patriarchal naming ...

New Year’s Day usually feels anticlimactic, and this one likely will be no different for many people. I find myself looking ...

At 67 years old, Rick Black turned from journalism to poetry. In last year’s Two Seasons in Israel: A Selection of Peace and ...

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I once asked a child to give a Sunday sermon—on the book of Job.