By TERRY MATTINGLYFriday, November 21, 2008Richard Ostling has never gotten used to seeing journalists commit sins of omission and commission on the religion beat. Religion can get complicated, with layers...

By DAVID YOUNTFriday, November 21, 2008With the world economy tumbling, it's only natural for Americans to worry whether we can erect a safety net that will protect our homes, investments,...

By TERRY MATTINGLYFriday, November 21, 2008If you want to cause trouble for American bishops, stick them in a vise between Rome and the armies of dissenters employed on Catholic campuses....

By DAVID YOUNTFriday, November 21, 2008In an America notable for its faith, there is still plenty of disbelief to go around. The novelist Michael Crichton, who died recently, went to...

By TERRY MATTINGLYFriday, November 21, 2008Reporter Louis Moore didn't know much about the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod when he began covering its bitter civil war in the 1970s. Nevertheless, as a...

By TERRY MATTINGLYFriday, November 21, 2008The interfaith coalition that formed in the 1990s to lobby for religious liberty in China was so large and so diverse that even the New...

By DAVID YOUNTFriday, November 21, 2008In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, the Times of London asked some of Britain's greatest thinkers to submit an essay to the...

By DAVID YOUNTFriday, November 21, 2008During my years in seminary, every evening meal was preceded by a reading from The Roman Martyrology, an ancient account of Christians who were tortured...

By TERRY MATTINGLYFriday, November 21, 2008If you could erase one moment from Sen. Barack Obama's White House campaign, which would you choose? That's an easy question for evangelicals, Catholics and...

By DAVID YOUNTFriday, November 21, 2008As a young adult Saint Augustine of Hippo, a victim of his raging hormones, prayed poignantly to God: "Lord, give me chastity," then added, "But...