The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will decide whether for-profit businesses can be treated like religious entities in a politically and constitutionally freighted..
(RNS) While church planners listened, a five-person focus group described life outside the congregation’s doors: A world falling apart. Families are..
On Thursday, hundreds of millions of Americans will gather to celebrate Thanksgiving–a day devoted to exuding gratitude and consuming food. According to the..
CHICAGO – Five nationally known and experienced ecumenical leaders have been installed as officers of the newly reorganized National Council of Churches..
LOUISVILLE – During the week of Nov. 17-23, more than 300 Presbyterians nationwide registered for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s SNAP Food Stamp Challenge...
(RNS) A federal judge has ruled that an Internal Revenue Service exemption that gives clergy tax-free housing allowances is unconstitutional. The exemption applies to..
Not many films begin with a voiceover narration by the voice of Death (Roger Allam). It was the 1930s, in Germany, and..
Click here to read the Outlook film review of “The Book Thief” Q & A with Brian Percival (director), Markus Zusak..
On November 22, 1963 C.S. Lewis died one hour after the death of President John F. Kennedy. It was a sad day..
National staff participants in the SNAP Food Stamp Challenge talk about their experiences (clockwise from bottom left): Rebecca Barnes (back to..
Last week I spent a day preaching and connecting with the folks at a Heartland Presbytery meeting in Kansas City, MO. While I was..
CHICAGO – James E. Winkler, general secretary of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society (GBCS), has been elected..
(RNS) A cycle of violence in the Central African Republic is quickly degenerating into a religious conflict between Christians and Muslims, amid..
WASHINGTON (RNS) Death may be inevitable, but one in three Americans – including most blacks and Hispanics – want doctors to never..
I live in Florida. Today’s high will be 85 degrees. So it was pretty funny and a little surreal to watch a..
Members of the clergy in the Presbyterian Church of South Sudan, a partner church of World Mission, were released after nearly seven..
DALLAS - When Loc Dai Nguyen was growing up in Vietnam, his father was put in prison for being a Christian..
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have..
LIBERTYVILLE, ILL – I was barely in the door of my sister’s house here for a recent visit when she said, “Oh,..
This article was originally posted on "Beyond the Ordinary" and is reprinted with permission. Every congregation needs cheerful givers. Yet many religious leaders..
Presbyterians who want to help with disaster relief in the typhoon-swamped Philippines are being urged to pray and send money, but not..
Christians are good at offering answers. We can tell you why the world is broken. We can tell you how it will..
Compiled by Roy Howard, Outlook book editor The Experience of God — Being, Consciousness, Bliss David Bentley Hart Yale University Press,..
(RNS) Facing crowded pews and heavy hearts, Dallas clergy took to the pulpits on Nov. 24, 1963 to try to make sense..
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