In New Orleans, officials estimate that as of summer 2006, the population is only about 45 percent of what it was before Hurricane Katrina. Many survivors still face overwhelming needs, and faith-based groups continue to play a central role in trying to meet them. More →

August 25, 2006

UNIDENTIFIED MINISTER: Give welcome to Dr. Gardner C. Taylor. KIM LAWTON: Reverend Gardner C. Taylor gets a celebrity’s welcome when he takes the pulpit in churches across the nation, and at 88, he still shows the charm that has pulled … More →

August 18, 2006

Read more of Kim Lawton’s July 24, 2006 interview in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the Rev. Gardner C. Taylor. More →

August 18, 2006

Read more of Kim Lawton’s interview about Gardner Taylor with Duke Divinity School professor of preaching Richard Lischer: Q: Looking at the American religious scene, how significant has Gardner Taylor been? A: He’s very significant, because he almost single-handedly has … More →

August 18, 2006

The debate over religion and politicking has pitted clergy against clergy in the key battleground state of Ohio. In a highly unusual move, over 60 members of the clergy of a variety of Christian and Jewish denominations filed a complaint with the IRS accusing Pastor Russell Johnson and another pastor of improperly using their churches in political activities. More →

August 18, 2006

Read an excerpt from HOW SHALL THEY PREACH? by Gardner C. Taylor, reprinted in THE COMPANY OF PREACHERS, an anthology edited by Richard Lischer (Eerdmans, 2002): Gardner C. Taylor Every preacher ought never to forget in his preaching that one … More →

August 18, 2006

  Is God really there? Or does the search for the existence of a supernatural being, so pervasive in all cultures ever studied, represent a universal but groundless human longing for something outside ourselves to give meaning to a meaningless … More →

July 21, 2006

Read more of Bob Abernethy’s July 6, 2006 interview in Washington, D.C. with Francis S. Collins, director of the Human Genome Project: Q: How do you describe yourself as a Christian? A: I’m a serious Christian. I take my faith … More →

July 21, 2006

  BOB ABERNETHY: Several recent best-selling books have sharpened the old debate between some scientists and some religionists over creation, evolution and, among other issues, stem cell research. We want to re-run today a story we carried this past summer … More →

July 21, 2006

Read an excerpt and view a gallery of pictures from “How the Other Half Worships” by Camilo Jose Vergara. More →

July 14, 2006