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  • Sammy Rodriguez Extended Interview

    Read more of Kim Lawton’s September 17, 2006 interview in Laredo, Texas, with the Rev. Sammy Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. More →

    October 6, 2006

  • EXCERPT: THE LANGUAGE OF GOD: A SCIENTIST PRESENTS EVIDENCE FOR BELIEF by Francis S. Collins

      Is God really there? Or does the search for the existence of a supernatural being, so pervasive in all cultures ever studied, represent a universal but groundless human longing for something outside ourselves to give meaning to a meaningless … More →

    July 21, 2006

  • Young Clergy Shortage

      LUCKY SEVERSON, guest host: Mainline Protestant churches have long had a problem of shrinking congregations. Their efforts to put more people in the pews also face another disturbing trend – the shortage of young clergy to lead those congregations … More →

    June 30, 2006

  • Frederick Buechner Extended Interview

      Read Bob Abernethy’s April 5, 2006 interview with writer and preacher Frederick Buechner: Q: You have a new book of some of your sermons over the last 50 years [SECRETS IN THE DARK: A LIFE IN SERMONS, HarperSanFrancisco]. What … More →

    May 5, 2006

  • Frederick Buechner

      BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, a profile of writer and preacher Frederick Buechner. He’s an ordained Presbyterian minister, but has never pastored a church and rarely attends one. His ministry is his writing: 32 novels and memoirs so far, and … More →

    May 5, 2006

  • Holy Week

    Read an excerpt from IN THE COMPANY OF CHRIST: A PILGRIMAGE THROUGH HOLY WEEK by Benedicta Ward. More →

    April 7, 2006

  • Bonhoeffer for the Twenty-first Century

    Read an essay by Robin W. Lovin, professor of ethics at Southern Methodist University, on the implications of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ideas for modern life. More →

    February 3, 2006

  • Excerpts: On Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Read excerpts from essays and books about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. More →

    February 3, 2006

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Observances mark the 100th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s birth. The German theologian was involved in a plot to kill Hitler, and was subsequently put to death by the Nazis for his resistance. More →

    February 3, 2006

  • Faith and Family in America, Part Four: Religious Responses

    Part four of a four-part series on faith and family: a growing number of families are not the traditional married mother and father with children — single mothers, cohabiting men and women, gay couples, and the divorced have become more common. How are churches and other religious groups responding to these families? More →

    November 18, 2005

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