The bestselling author talks about faith, failure, forgiveness, finding Jesus, and being a Christian. More →

February 17, 2006

The role of pastor may be one of the most overlooked sides of Martin Luther King Jr. But it was one of the most important aspects of who he was. More →

January 13, 2006

Read more of Kim Lawton’s interview about Martin Luther King Jr. with Professor Lewis Baldwin: Professor Lewis Baldwin Many labels were attached to [Dr. King] during his lifetime. He was called a civil rights activist; he was called a social … More →

January 13, 2006

Read the funeral tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta by Methodist theologian L. Harold DeWolf. More →

January 13, 2006

Read more of Kim Lawton’s interview about Martin Luther King Jr. and Dexter Avenue Baptist Church with the Reverend Michael Thurman: Reverend Michael Thurman The sanctuary is basically what it would’ve looked like during the time of Dr. King’s tenure … More →

January 13, 2006

Read more of Kim Lawton’s interview about Martin Luther King Jr. with the Reverend Mary Jo Smiley: A friend brought me to visit Dexter [Avenue Baptist Church]. I had visited other churches but just found something at Dexter that drew … More →

January 13, 2006

When Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah fall on the same day, the growing number of interfaith families who observe both holidays face an unusual challenge. We visited the Miller family in Takoma Park, Maryland, to find out how they’re handling this “December dilemma.” More →

December 23, 2005

by David E. Anderson Christmas, more than any other holiday in the Christian calendar, seems to spark the poetic impulse — an impulse that began, as the Episcopal priest, professor, and poet Chad Walsh (1914-1991) remarked some years ago, with … More →

December 23, 2005

A new report says this year Americans gave record amounts of private charitable donations. Another report says Americans donated nearly $3 billion to post-hurricane relief efforts. Yet nearly four months after Hurricane Katrina, the magnitude of the destruction is still difficult to comprehend. In the midst of it, many people here say the themes of Christmas are echoing in new and poignant ways.
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December 16, 2005

Part four of a four-part series on faith and family: a growing number of families are not the traditional married mother and father with children — single mothers, cohabiting men and women, gay couples, and the divorced have become more common. How are churches and other religious groups responding to these families? More →

November 18, 2005