In my history of Christianity course, we read a number of challenging writers. Each one I ask students to read with as much sympathy, charity and critical perspective as they can muster. But nothing outrages them — not the writings…

Taxi or Uber? It’s a question with moral implications that extend far beyond what kind of car you choose.

There is much to learn about justice reform from Jesus’ exchange with the woman at the well. The first lesson is that those cycled through the criminal justice system need to be seen as more than criminals.

Asking why there is so little progressive Christianity in America is a bit like asking the question so famously posed at the start of the previous century:“Why is there no socialism in the United States?”

But a steadily growing number on the religious right now view a potential Trump presidency as their only chance at reasserting conservative influence on the Supreme Court, which may very well make decisions on many key social issues.

Conviction can come at strange times and in strange places. I learned this the other day.

Mother Teresa spent a long period of her life struggling with faith, losing the presence of God, and even believing that she didn’t believe in God, as she wrote in many poignant letters that were only released after her death.

Can moderate religion combat religious extremism or will only hardline secularism succeed?

In West Texas, a Christian pregnancy center has grown increasingly involved in reproductive life — including teaching sex ed in public schools.

We need a new common narrative about who we are as a country

In acknowledging its failures, Georgetown has renewed the Christian story of sin and redemption, one that often seems to have been banished from a world where the acknowledgment “mistakes were made” rarely entails much remorse, let alone penance.

Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota fear their sacred lands and livelihoods are in danger from a planned oil pipeline, and a major mainstream news anchor has taken up their cause.