Andrew Brown wonders “whether things are going to change [in the Church of England], or whether the church will pootle along, like an exhausted cyclist, until it finally wobbles over and collapses.”
A wide majority of Americans support the Boy Scouts of America’s proposal to admit gay scouts for the first time, and most oppose the organization’s plans to continue to bar gay adults from serving as scout leaders, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Updated The former archbishop of York, the Most Rev. David Hope, was accused Friday of covering up child abuse by a Church of England clergyman who has since died.
The contrast in the discussion of faith in the stories of two prominant athletes in the news tells us a lot about whose faith we take seriously and whose we ignore.
When is God a smash on Broadway and when is the divine a cosmic flop?
Søren Kierkegaard’s 200th birthday is May 5th. Jeffery Frank says that his greatest contribution may be how we communicate today.
T.H. Luhrmann describes meeting people who had an auditory experience of God. Were they crazy or more intensely prayerful? She speculates that prayer both guides and disciplines the imagination.
The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans climbed a startling 28 percent in a decade, a period that included the recession and the mortgage crisis, the government reported Thursday.
The Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Church of Sweden (Lutheran) committed to “leading a conversion of epic scale, a metanoia, or communal spiritual movement away from sin and despair toward the renewal and healing of all creation.”
Bishop Gene Robinson talks to Stephen Colbert about his new book.