Some seminary graduates are finding it increasingly difficult to secure paid, full-time jobs as pastors. Many turn to other ways to serve or to make ends meet while they look for work. “These students genuinely feel that existentially they have been challenged by God to serve people.” says Greg Sterling, dean of Yale Divinity School. “How are they going to do that if they can’t be supported” by a financially viable congregation? More →

May 29, 2015

“If we don’t in some concrete way help people to have a decent life here on earth, we are not fulfilling the gospel. It’s that simple,” say Pastor Dan Bryant, senior minister of the First Christian Church Disciples of Christ in Eugene, Oregon, and president of the board of Opportunity Village. More →

October 10, 2014

“One of my goals is to get pastors and congregations to feel emboldened to ask questions about the economy,” says Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City. More →

November 8, 2013

Watch excerpts of interviews with people of faith who are supporting the Occupy Wall Street protests. More →

October 28, 2011

Watch excerpts from former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s June 3, 2011 speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Washington. More →

June 7, 2011

What did people of faith think about President Obama’s State of the Union address? Watch our panel of religion analysts assess the speech. More →

January 27, 2011

“The spiritual value of seeing God in the other cannot be stressed enough in politics today.” More →

January 27, 2011

Watch our annual reporters roundtable on the most important religion and ethics news of the past year. More →

December 22, 2010

According to US government figures, more than 40,000 people have been brought in to help clean up the oil and deal with the crisis. But many in the fishing industry say they haven’t been able to get work, and they don’t know when they’ll be able to resume their livelihoods. More →

July 23, 2010

A Cleveland-based welding-equipment manufacturer combines its no-layoffs policy with rigorous productivity standards, generous bonuses, and a labor-management culture that respects the dignity of employees. More →

July 9, 2010