(RNS) Conservatives aren't the only ones who can fly the religious freedom flag.
Author - G. Jeffrey MacDonald
(RNS) Angry their parish would be closed in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, around 100 parishioners took turns sleeping overnight in the church.
(RNS) Gordon’s long-standing policy became controversial in 2014 after its president signed on to a national push from religious colleges to seek exemptions...
(RNS) Squeezed by the economics of denominational decline, many mainline Protestant seminaries are seeking new lifelines in partnerships.
(RNS) The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg said they would be “forming one seminary” from the...
(RNS) Respecting female colleagues as equals wasn’t the norm, said a church staffer who served at the national church headquarters from 2008 to 2012.
(RNS) By saying nothing about what types of violations occurred, the church heightens the risk that wrongful behavior will be repeated elsewhere.
(RNS) The new plan comes as mainline Protestant seminaries take steps to weather financial storms caused by an average drop in enrollments of nearly 24 percent...
(RNS) Debt collection from refugees brings upward of $5 million a year to faith-based groups that are playing an increasingly central role in the refugees'...
(RNS) The 208-year-old school calls the move part of “a bold new direction” as it vies to stop running big deficits and struggles to find a financially...
BOSTON – "I walked in the room, I looked at his face and said, 'Oh my God, he's so young!' " said Sister Helen Prejean. Throughout its case, the defense team...
BOSTON – In a statement published on the front page of Friday's Boston Globe, William and Denise Richard said a death sentence for convicted bomber Dzhokhar...
BOSTON (RNS) Potential jurors in bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial must be able to impose the death penalty. That standard eliminates most Catholics...
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. (RNS) When word spread that Boston native Moshe Twersky was among those murdered in a Jerusalem synagogue attack, local Jews grieved not only...
BOSTON (RNS) Since May, a giant aluminum sculpture depicting a cross-sectioned chambered nautilus has been lighting up the pediment in a brilliant blue and...