The Gospels occupy a kind of center point in human culture as a whole: products of a particular time and place, but comprehensible to all.

Today’s Russian Orthodox Church is the child of the Soviet-era Church, which a relentless KGB subordinated to Communist power.

If we leave religion out of our national conversation, we end up with a vapid conversation that doesn’t address the deepest realities that move most of the people in this country.

2016 is already beginning to look like another year of Grim Slide, of a world stumbling down a slippery slope to become less secure, less stable, and less free.

To get any insight at all into what Jesus’ childhood and upbringing were like, you have to do something that sometimes makes Protestants uncomfortable: study Mary.

An attack on an Indian air force base was aimed at scotching any prospect that Indo-Pakistani relations would actually improve.

The flawed human race, trapped in a cycle of cascading pain and wrong is what, and who, God is bound and determined to love; the question is how can He do it?

The Christmas story suggests that we can somehow try both to be loyal members of our nations, our families, our tribes—and also to reach out to the broader human community of which we are also a part.

That little baby lying so cutely in the manger is the biggest trouble maker in world history, and the shocking claims that Christianity makes about who He is and what He means irritate and antagonize people all over the world.

Theists and atheists are different. While both groups think life means something, they understand that meaning in different ways.