BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We have a Road to Damascus story today about a hard-living, cynical Hollywood writer who says he hit bottom one day and was transformed by God. He used to specialize in scripts full of sex, violence, … More →

February 6, 2009

In 2004, novelist John Updike spoke at the Center for Religious Inquiry at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City. Read Benedicta Cipolla’s report. After 21 novels and countless short stories, John Updike still creates characters who behave in the … More →

January 30, 2009

President Obama discusses his plans and hopes for the American religious community. More →

January 23, 2009

The notoriously tough maximum security Sing Sing Prison in New York State is a forbidding place, not where you would expect to find a program offering an accredited master’s degree in professional studies in religion. The course is sponsored by the New York Theological Seminary, and it’s been at Sing Sing for a quarter of a century. More →

January 8, 2009

BOOK REVIEW Poet as Prophet: The Religious Whitman and His Disciples by David E. Anderson The link between religion and poetry has largely been lost to the popular mind in the Western world, especially in the United States. Even the … More →

January 6, 2009

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We look back now at 2008 with the help of Kim Lawton of RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY; Roland Martin, a CNN commentator who joins us from Chicago; and E.J. Dionne, a columnist for The Washington Post and … More →

December 26, 2008

KIM LAWTON: It’s a longstanding Mexican-American Christmas tradition called Las Posadas. In a procession, parishioners reenact Joseph and Mary’s search for lodging in Bethlehem. They knock, but they’re told there’s no room in the inn. Here in Antioch, California, an … More →

December 26, 2008

KIM LAWTON: It’s the season of Santa Claus, and it seems he’s everywhere. Children anxiously await the arrival of Santa who is, of course, bearing gifts. But some Christians are worried that most of those children, and their parents as … More →

December 19, 2008

“Do you want to reconstitute immune systems or do you want to reconstitute lives?” asks Dr. Joseph Mamlin, who runs a clinic in Kenya that now serves over 60,000 patients. “We’ve decided to go after lives.” More →

December 5, 2008

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly has asked theologians, ethicists, and others to comment on the current financial crisis: Wendell Berry The first thing that becomes apparent in times like this is how imaginary the economy is. Not imaginary in the sense … More →

October 10, 2008