As the American Bible Society marks its 200th anniversary, and after a series of leadership changes and a recent move to Philadel­phia, its leaders are looking to the nation’s past in planning for the future.

When an event like flooding in Louisiana takes place, media coverage shifts to a sober note. But images of destruction and heroic rescuers suggest another, disconcerting dimension to catastrophe: disaster is a form of entertainment.

Nearly half of the more than 63,000 refugees welcomed into the United States in the fiscal year 2016 so far were Muslim — with a majority of new Muslim arrivals coming from the war-torn countries of Syria and Somalia.

Nearly 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door, the largest Lutheran denomination in the U.S. has approved a declaration recognizing “there are no longer church-dividing issues” on many points with the Roman Catholic Church.

If we live in right relationship with our buildings, we can use them as incredible tools for ministry. We can use buildings as signs we are rooted and planted in our communities, and that we are not going anywhere.

As Muslims struggle cope with shooting deaths of an imam and his assistant in New York City, some non-Muslims are offering to walk beside their Muslim neighbors to and from the mosque.

Half a century ago, such figures existed in America: serious Christian intellectuals who occupied a prominent place on the national stage. They are gone now.

American politicians claim to prioritize the middle class. But Christians who seek to let their faith shape their public engagement must recognize that the Bible does not.

What are the hymns, psalms, and spiritual songs of this civil spirituality? This year’s general election is providing a rich soundscape for discovering just what they might be.