Among the dismaying realizations of midlife, I have had to face the fact that I enjoy church gossip. I try to be responsible, ...

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Mariann Budde, who shot to fame after urging President Donald Trump to have mercy on immigrants and others, announced she ...

In my work as a chaplain and retreat facilitator, I keep a stash of prayer collections within close reach: John O’Donohue’s ...

Molly Myers is an editorial intern at the Forward. Gripping Israeli flags in Union Square, a crowd of roughly three dozen chanted “Vote him out,” as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared ...

Bonnie Kristian’s new book aims to unmonster the evangelical brand.

As a matter of church law, the season of disaffiliation in the United Methodist Church is over. However, legal disputes ...

Kit Carlson is an Episcopal priest and author of Speaking Our Faith: Equipping the Next Generations to Tell the Old, ...

It was not a seam of connection but a gap or chasm that developed between Jim and others. But Jim, building on his mother’s ...

Department of Justice lawyers have asked a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court decision that kept an IRS ban on ...

When I learned that writer Annie Dillard died, I did something I haven’t done since my dad died four years ago. I knelt on ...

Job can be taken as an example of someone who has achieved a certain level of virtue by way of his wealth—and thus is able to ...