The estate of A.M. Burton has reached a settlement agreement with the Nashville Church of Christ after years of dispute over the downtown Nashville, Tenn., church building formerly known as the ...

Starting in the 1880s, two groups rushed into the central Appalachian Mountains: Industrialists seeking coal, and missionaries seeking moral reform. Both changed the region forever, and their stories ...

I can’t imagine I will ever teach a course on Research Methods again, but it’s something that I actually really did enjoy at EIU. I led our incoming graduate students on a tour of how political ...

Weiss (a liberal Jew who is married to another woman) has demonstrated a strong belief that real religious believers, acting on real religious beliefs, can shape real news events in the real world.

In a world where sports and spirituality don’t often intersect, Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt stood as a remarkable exception.

The Serbian Orthodox Church, which represents 85 percent of this Baltic country’s population, has been largely urged the student protestors to “go bak to their classes” and not protest.

Next year, a new feature-length presentation of the Crucifixion will hit the big screen. It’ll mark the culmination of the ...

A reporter asked the Pope about the decision to give a U.S. Senator Dick Durbin a lifetime achievement award. The problem: Durbin consistently backs abortion rights and remains barred from receiving ...

In the early 2000s, women were more regular churchgoers than men, and according to researchers, it is unclear whether this new shift “is a story of women stepping back or men stepping up.” ...

The ongoing federal government shutdown furloughed 57 members of The Commonwealth of Faith Church in Michigan, where a third of the 350 attendees are federal workers, including bivocational Pastor ...

Ethiopia stands at a critical juncture. Years of civil war and ethnic strife have left deep wounds and a fragile peace.

The question of whether Christianity is under attack, especially in the United States, is a complex and deeply polarizing one. Is it discrimination? Is it part of an overall decline? Is it a cultural ...