Conversion

Infamous for circling the wagons, the Jewish people forgets its deep roots in conversion. Shavuot is a chance to reconsider our commitment to the image of the Jewish people and the image we portray when it comes to the convert in our midst.

How did I remember that today is the Hebrew calendar date of my son's first birthday? I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that it was not by my own memory, but truly of divine intervention.

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Prison Fellowship founder and former Nixon aide Chuck Colson was memorialized Wednesday ...

In early March, I received a letter from my bank informing me of an impending "Conversion Date" on May 4. As a Religious Studies professor, I read on eagerly wondering what aspects of my body or soul might change.

Recursion is how conversion always turns together with itself as already having been, again, both different and the same.

Mormons have performed such baptisms since their founding prophet introduced the practice on the banks of the Mississippi in the early 1840s. In this rite, Mormons receive baptism "for and in behalf of" a deceased individual.

Conversion describes the gathering of the present; it is the unity of the present with the modes of being past and future.

Sean Stone, son of famed director Oliver Stone, is now a Muslim. According to the Agence France-Presse, the 27-year-old filmmaker converted to Isl...

Have an spiritual question, ethical dilemma, or religious curiosity? Don't be shy! People of all backgrounds, ages and creeds are encouraged to submit questions to Ask Pastor Paul.

Are the monks and the sisters but marginal Catholics in these concerns? I dare say that they are not. In recent years Pope Benedict XVI has made some important statements about respect for the environment.

I've been thinking a lot about change recently because of the course I'm teaching this semester, which looks at the experience of conversion from historical, sociological and anthropological perspectives.

What are the choices when a loved one leaves the family faith (or non-faith)? Though we may think we're far beyond the bickering of our forebears, our choices have remained much the same since the Reformation.

If it seems foolhardy to forecast the date of the apocalypse, predicting the future of religion is not so far-fetched, as some scholars say they have an increasing number of scientific tools to make such projections.

LONDON — About 900 members of the Church of England have taken the first step toward becoming Catholics, the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wa...

Witnessing is telling the story of how God came into your life. It must end with your accepting Christ, and then things are supposed to be all right with you. You're not supposed to be hopeless and want to die.

Is conflict inevitable? Fighting and fighting words aside, relations between Evangelicals and Muslims are far from uniform.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.

"Is conversion wrong?" The answer, as one might expect, is complicated.

In the comment threads of some of my posts here on Huffington Post, people have speculated about whether or not I'm "really" a Christian. So, I thought I'd share the story of my conversion.

Who wants to hang out with a person who they know believes them to be wrong about some of the most personal and important topics anyone can be wrong about?

I caught up with Penina Taylor to ask her about her spiritual journey, her feelings towards Jesus, and to find out if she has any regrets.

It is weird that Jewish groups call it "poaching" when Christians seek to convert Jews, yet find it acceptable for Jews to seek the conversion of Christians.