(RNS) — When the heartbreaking news came this weekend that Rachel Held Evans had passed away after enduring a medical coma for three weeks, it quickly became clear just how… read more

Olga Khazan's March 7 story in the Atlantic, "Why So Many Americans Are Turning to Buddhism," discusses the significant upsurge in a secularized "Buffet Buddhism" among… read more

(RNS) — Do you believe astrology governs your love life? Do you think some people have extraordinary powers of perception that allow them to predict the future? Do you hold… read more

Ephesians 1:4 says that God the Father chose us in Christ "before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him." This is the "hope" to which we are … read more

Those of us in churches that follow the Revised Common Lectionary heard Jesus’ strong words against divorce from Mark 10 earlier this month. Talking about divorce is a… read more

The Christian movement we call “fundamentalism” began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, largely in reaction to the rise of modernity and liberal… read more