Stanley Hauerwas
In a new documentary, Will Willimon puts his preaching toolbox to the test
By Yonat Shimron — June 23, 2021
(RNS) — In ‘A Will to Preach,’ one of the most effective preachers in the English-speaking world, according to a Baylor University survey, shows how a master craftsman approaches the task.
Tish Harrison Warren, a rising star in Christian spiritual writing
By Jana Riess — February 26, 2021
(RNS) — Tish Harrison Warren's willingness to merge personal vulnerability with deep theological reflection has made her one of the most promising Christian spiritual writers of her generation.
The Christian social ethics project hits a wall
By David P. Gushee — March 13, 2017
What is needed in America today goes far beyond public-policy tinkering.
Alien citizens
By Martin E. Marty — March 8, 2017
We’ll keep reading the Bruderhof journal and related materials, to be challenged when we disagree and cheered when, as so often happens, we are jarred into agreement with these residents-with-a-difference.
Does the Reformation still matter?
By Jacob Lupfer — October 30, 2016
(RNS) 'I wanted my Protestantism to mean something. But I found little evidence that it really mattered -- to me or to anyone else,' writes Jacob Lupfer.
So now I am a pastor
By David P. Gushee — September 26, 2016
When I was 17, I felt called to be a pastor. Now I am one.
Stanley Hauerwas drops out of General Theological Seminary lecture series after controversy
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — October 8, 2014
(RNS) The Christian ethicist said he does not want to be seen as taking sides in a conflict between the administration and its faculty.
The ethics of a Syrian military intervention: The experts respond
By Yonat Shimron — August 29, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) As the Obama administration readies for a probable military strike against Syria, Religion News Service asked a panel of theologians and policy experts whether the U.S. should intervene in Syria in light of the regime's use of chemical weapons against civilians.
Christian ethicist Jean Bethke Elshtain dies at 72
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — August 13, 2013
(RNS) Widely admired ethicist Jean Bethke Elshtain regularly wrote and lectured on ethics, politics and religion but was routinely criticized by other theologians for her position on Iraq.
Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio elected as Pope Francis
By Alessandro Speciale — March 13, 2013
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as Pope Francis on Wednesday after only two days of voting in the conclave tasked with choosing a successor to Pope Benedict XVI.
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