WATCH: Joel Osteen's Personal Opinion On Gay People
Houston megachurch Pastor Joel Osteen has said numerous times that he believes being gay is a sin in accordance with his understanding of Christian sc...
Houston megachurch Pastor Joel Osteen has said numerous times that he believes being gay is a sin in accordance with his understanding of Christian sc...
Scott Carroll, Ph.D. | Posted 05.06.2012
Verbum Domini underscores the importance of The Green Collection and private repositories. It shows that the preservation of the Bible, much like its survival throughout the ages, is alive and well in private hands.
Karen Torjesen | Posted 04.10.2012
HIV/AIDS in Africa carries a woman's face. Women are nearly twice as susceptible to HIV infection as men. Why?
Lisa Anderson | Posted 02.27.2012
I began to starve myself to death, and with an experience of sickness that infiltrated into every fiber of my physical, mental and spiritual being. 'What is sin' and 'what does it mean to be a sinner' became intensely personal questions for me.
Jim Wallis | Posted 01.10.2012
A survey released this week by the Public Religion Research Institute shows that majorities in every major religious category, as well as the religiously unaffiliated, all believe that the country would be better off if the distribution of wealth was more equal.
AP | Posted 01.02.2012
WASHINGTON -- It was a blunder of biblical proportions. White House spokesman Jay Carney invoked scripture Wednesday to back up President Barack Obam...
David Briggs | Posted 12.28.2011
It is puzzling that growing evidence showing the importance of congregations cultivating the spiritual lives of the faithful is so routinely ignored.
Asad Khan | Posted 03.26.2012
The Future does not equal the past, does it? Ever since man was created, the Angels questioned the Creator about the bloodshed and mischief that would...
Joshua Stanton | Posted 11.19.2011
It is increasingly becoming recognized that if the Torah is to guide the lives of young Jews, it must itself come alive, and be an experience rather than just another objective in an already long day of school and extracurricular activities.
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 10.21.2011
World Youth Day, Crown Heights, Ramadan Reflections, Women Religious Leaders, Orthodox Gays And Lesbians Marrying Each Other, and Kiddie Preachers.. It has been a busy week on HuffPost Religion.
Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 10.03.2011
It is because of my religious beliefs that I am unwavering in my support for abortion, family planning and sexuality education. It is because life is sacred and parenthood so precious that no woman should be coerced to carry a pregnancy to term.
Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards | Posted 09.25.2011
At this moment, politicians, most of them Christians, are telling us that we no longer have the money to care for all Americans, including the least among us.
Posted 09.21.2011
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Derek Flood | Posted 09.13.2011
Since story is such a foundational part of how we as humans make sense of our lives, it makes sense that our sacred texts would make use of story.
Marilyn Sewell | Posted 08.22.2011
When I use the word God, I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. And yet, paradoxically, I've staked everything there -- with this Mystery that I cannot comprehend with my finite mind.
John Backman | Posted 07.14.2011
Amid all the hostility among people of faith, many of us reserve our most potent venom for people of our own faith: those who disagree with us, that is.
Posted 07.06.2011
By Bruce Nolan Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS -- Working in a cluster of offices above a LifeWay Christian Bookstore, Bible scholars are buried...
Sister Joan Chittister, OSB | Posted 06.19.2011
Holy Week is a week to recall your own cost of living the Christian life and drawing strength for the journey from the One who has lived it before us and now fills us with His own eternal life.
Matt Idom | Posted 05.25.2011
It is not through the bible that I am found. No, that is more about the one God I understand the bible to be revealing.
Rev. Peter M. Wallace | Posted 05.25.2011
The psalmist struggled with this question: Who is worthy of membership in God's "club"?
Posted 05.25.2011
In an interview which will air Wednesday on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, megachurch pastor Joel Osteen declares that homosexuality is a sin based on hi...
Scott Cairns | Posted 05.25.2011
Confessing our uncertainties in the face of complex circumstances may prove finally to be a very good thing, even something of a gift. They bring us face to face with the limit where human understanding fails.
Posted 05.25.2011
The tradition of the Advent calendar is known to have existed in some form since the middle of the 19th century. For Christians all over the world, i...
Peter Ochs, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
One cannot hold "scripture" in one's hand. "Scripture" refers not to any text by itself, but to an intimate and ongoing relationship between a text and the community who reads it.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
This week, a group of more than 130 former legislators, both Republicans and Democrats, released a letter urging for civility and encouraging candidates, once elected, to focus on cooperation to face our country's greatest challenges.
Posted 05.02.2012