I was not a "missionary kid" when I lived for two years of my boyhood in India. My parents, after all, weren't missionaries sent by a church or a Christian missionary society. Rather, my father was ...

As journalist Anne Applebaum writes in this story in the current issue of The Atlantic about the ongoing war in Sudan: "Statistics are sometimes used to express the scale of the destruction in Sudan.

What I want to say about the recent death of my first wife, Marcia Albright, has only a little to do with our almost-27-year marriage, how and why it ended or our post-marital relationship. (The link ...

Murder is against the law everywhere. Even one of the Ten Commandments (see Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17) forbids it.

Before I tell you about this incredible new book that recounts the history of The National Catholic Reporter, I feel a need to disclose my several connections to this courageous and resourceful ...

When I grew up in a small Northern Illinois town in the 1950s and early '60s, children like me learned almost nothing about homosexuality except, eventually, to make fun of people we suspected were, ...

It's been pretty clear for some time now that the effort to undo American democracy has had supporters who identify as people of faith. But the details of that have not been easy to trace simply by ...

The recent trial, conviction and sentencing of the man who murdered 11 worshipers and wounded six more at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 has, once again, put the spotlight on resurgent antisemitism in ...

After some 11 years, the senior pastor of my congregation left almost three years ago to become the senior pastor of the American Church in Paris. Months later we hired a transitional pastor, whose ...

C edar Monroe knows what it means to be called "poor white trash," and has decided to have none of it anymore. Monroe understands that such labels reflect an economy and political and racial systems ...