By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times
One of the many difficulties with today’s popular view of Scripture as being more flexible than the average political campaign promise is that those given to compromise on biblical standards can quickly paint themselves into a very difficult corner. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times
A traditional-marriage organization said Wednesday that it was a victim of political abuse by the Internal Revenue Service and called for a congressional investigation into the matter. Published May 15, 2013 Comments
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
Pope Francis is set to canonize an estimated 800 Italians, who were forced to choose between Islam or death during a 15-century siege by Ottoman soldiers. Published May 1, 2013 Comments
Affable Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, endeared himself to the overwhelmingly evangelical Protestant crowd at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview’s 2013 Wilberforce Awards dinner April 27, Published May 2, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Television producer Mark Burnett said his successful three-hour History production of “The Bible” is heading to the big screen. Published April 23, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times
America's 77 million Catholics generally gave Pope Benedict XVI high marks, but his surprise decision to step down after just eight years comes as the U.S. church confronts a string of unanswered questions, on issues ranging from divisions with the Obama administration on birth control and gay marriage to political activism by U.S. nuns and the continuing fallout from the sexual-abuse scandals in dioceses across the country. Published February 11, 2013
By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times
Moishe Rosen led a career of preaching the message of Jesus that made an impact on his generation and far beyond. His Jews for Jesus organization says it "exists to make the messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people worldwide." Published February 7, 2013
By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
President Obama appealed for "comity" Thursday morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, exhorting the country's leaders to rise above partisan politics and come together to solve problems. By afternoon, he was rallying fellow Democrats, challenging Republicans to a public duel over raising taxes to solve the nation's budget woes, and promising to lead the charge to restore Nancy Pelosi to her former post as speaker of the House. Published February 7, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
America's Catholic bishops on Thursday rejected President Obama's latest contraception mandate upon religiously affiliated hospitals, schools and charities, saying the rules still don't ensure that people won't be forced to pay for contraceptives to which they morally object. Published February 7, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
Published February 4, 2013
By Robert Barr - Associated Press
The Church of England has much explaining to do following its failure to vote to allow women to serve as bishops, its leader said Wednesday — and politicians from the prime minister downward are already demanding action or answers. Published November 21, 2012
By Donna Bryson - Associated Press
Everyone in this poor northern corner of South Africa has a story about Benedict Daswa’s kindness to his neighbors, his schoolteacher colleagues and the young villagers he helped feed. Published July 18, 2012
By Travis Loller - Associated Press
A federal judge ordered a Tennessee county on Wednesday to move ahead with opening a Muslim congregation’s newly built mosque after a two-year fight from opponents. Published July 18, 2012
By Travis Loller - Associated Press
The Southern Baptist Convention voted Tuesday to elect its first black president in one of its biggest steps yet to reconcile the 167-year-old denomination's troubled racial past and appeal to a more diverse group of Christians. Published June 19, 2012
By combined dispatches
As the sun rose Sunday on an old Moravian cemetery in North Carolina, 310 musicians with trumpets, tubas and trombones played in unison while thousands sang, "Hallelujah, praise the Lord" in an Easter scene mostly unchanged since before the Revolutionary War. Published April 8, 2012
By Alex Dominguez - Associated Press
The leading voice among the nation's Roman Catholic bishops against the Obama administration's contraception mandate was named Tuesday as the 16th archbishop of Baltimore, the nation's first diocese. Published March 20, 2012
By Jeremy Lott - Special to The Washington Times
Annotated Bibles don't often make headlines, but "The Jewish Annotated New Testament" (Oxford University Press) - the title alone is enough to provoke spirited discussion - has caused a stir. Published January 31, 2012
By Associated Press
Concordia Seminary in suburban St. Louis gets an eclectic mix of students in a program allowing them to train for the ministry online — electricians, farmers, entrepreneurs — and even a founder of one of the best-known thrash metal bands. Published January 22, 2012
By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times
U.S. Mormons say that they are still not fully accepted in America, especially by evangelical Christians, and believe the entertainment media - from the Broadway play, "The Book of Mormon" to HBO's "Big Love" portrayal of polygamy - aren't helping improve their image. Published January 12, 2012
By Samantha Gross - Associated Press
More than a dozen Muslim clerics and civic leaders skipped Mayor Michael Bloomberg's annual interfaith breakfast Friday, saying they were upset that he supported police department surveillance efforts in their neighborhoods. Published December 30, 2011
