I have a confession, which I will make now, and as publically as I can. I acted, albeit briefly, like a bully this past weekend.
Eleni Gage | Posted 04.23.2012
I hope the parents of all the other children of cross-cultural and interracial marriages -- even those who only count because of the new census -- have found their world similarly expanded.
AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 03.07.2012
ISTANBUL — Orthodox Christian worshippers plunged into chilly waters across southern and eastern Europe on Friday to retrieve crucifixes in cere...
Gregory C. Pappas | Posted 03.03.2012
Watching heart-wrenching stories about destitute Greeks coping with the crisis that has consumed the nation isn't exactly what I had in mind when I journeyed home for the holidays.
Todd Hartley | Posted 02.29.2012
How can each of Protestantism's 33,000 denominations expect people to take them seriously when the two that have been chosen to maintain the most important spot in all of Christendom fight each year over who gets to clean what part of the church?
David J. Dunn, PhD | Posted 09.12.2011
If marriage truly is a sacrament, as many Christians (including myself) believe, then we need to be much more concerned with developing a robust theology of marriage and making that understood among our congregations than with mobilizing them to deny the right of a civil marriage to same-sexed partners.
Sasa Milosevic | Posted 09.11.2011
For more than 1,000 years, in respect of a monastic tradition separating the sexes to allow them to focus on their spiritual tasks, women have been banned from Mount Athos. Time may no longer be on their side.
Posted 08.28.2011
By Chris Herlinger c. 2011 Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) With cries of "Rebuild now! Rebuild Now!" parishioners and supporters of a Greek O...
Posted 05.25.2011
By Nicole Neroulias Religion News Service (RNS) Greek Orthodox officials on Monday (Feb. 14) filed suit against the agency charged with rebuilding Gr...
Posted 05.25.2011
By NICOLE NEROULIAS Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) Buried by falling rubble from the World Trade Center towers after the 9/11 terrorist attacks...
Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
I've returned to Christianity and go to church as often as possible. Here are my top ten reasons why I think church is cool.
Eric Simpson | Posted 05.25.2011
The use of icons is an affirmation of that relationship and responsibility to the world. The alternative is a distortion that implicitly denies the incarnation of Christ.
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011
Mikele Arapi is sitting on the contemporary black leather sofa sipping coffee out of a china cup in his unexpected gallery, the elaborate valances of the window drapery framing his head like a halo.
Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011
CBS' 60 Minutes recently featured a devastating exposé on the violation of Greek minorities' rights in Turkey. This may be the first time that a major American TV network broadcast such coverage.
Journalism Boot Camp | Posted 05.25.2011
The estimated 175,000 Christians in Qatar are cautiously building the foundation to practice their faith within this conservative country in the Muslim world.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
In the tradition of a cliche genre of jokes, the forthcoming Turkish game show, Penitents Compete, will pit a Greek Orthodox priest, an imam, a rabbi ...
Father John Bakas | Posted 11.17.2011
It has been heat in the triple digits here in Southern California these last few days. I hear people saying, "It's hotter than hell out there today." ...
Scott Cairns | Posted 04.25.2012