World & Nation
Christians and Jews believe in the Ten Commandments, just not necessarily the version that will hang in classrooms in Louisiana.
July 3, 2024
Archives
* A Southland Assemblies of God minister is shepherding efforts to help make the long-overlooked churches a social force.
June 16, 2001
Music
Contact in the Desert melds a fascination with Ufology, esoteric spirituality, government conspiracy, alt-celebrity culture and a bit of self-awareness.
June 4, 2024
Opinion
Leaving Christian evangelicalism means sacrificing community and the security of ‘answers’ to life’s vexing questions. There are few smooth landings.
March 20, 2024
The chief executive of American Baptist Churches says mainline Protestantism is suffering from an “ecclesiastical malaise” that “touches almost every point in our denominational and ecumenical life.”
March 4, 1989
Lutherans meeting here and in two other cities Friday overwhelmingly approved plans to merge into one denomination, which will make it the fourth largest in U.S.
Aug. 30, 1986
California
Victor Castro is talking about his past sins, his Catholic education and how, after a loyal but unexamined allegiance to that church, he left it to find his faith.
Jan. 1, 1995
In his introduction to “Tongues of Fire,” David Martin, a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, promises not to write like a sociologist.
April 15, 1990
Politics
When George Washington unexpectedly added the words so help me God to the oath of office he took in 1789, he changed history.
Feb. 22, 1992
A struggle of faith, tradition and politics has driven 15,000 people from their villages in the tropical mountains of southern Mexico.
Sept. 6, 1992