NPR profiles Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta a Washington veteran who has served in Congress and who was most recently head of the CIA Panetta cites his Catholic faith as something that helps to inform his life-and-death decisions For the past two years Leon Panetta was at the center of the U

It seems hard to believe but it was only a couple months ago that celebrity Donald Trump was flirting with running for the GOP nomination for president when he was thoroughly humiliated by President Obama at the White House Correspondent s Dinner ldquo For example ndash no seriously ndash rec

The great Protestant theologian Karl Barth is purported to have said A preacher needs a newspaper in one hand and a Bible inthe other As someone who dabbles in both news and theology I take Barth s point to be that for Christians neither realm should exist without the other the world should be

I wrote about my experience visiting a medical school anatomy lab a while ago and I described how viewing human bodies in such intimate detail caused me to consider the spiritual and epistemological dimensions of human life One Catholic medical school in Chicago also recognizes the spiritual dimen

Do you have a Jesus fish on your car and if so why That question is explored by blogger Fred Clark at Patheos who writes about witnessing tools and Christian Evangelicalism nbsp He says that witnessing to the faith is taught to Evangelical Christians from a very young age and then explores

Fr Mychal Judge the fallen chaplain of the Fire Department of New York City will be honored with a statue in front of his former parish according to a story from Religion News Services via The Huffington Post When All Saints Church sought to signal its hospitality to gays and lesbians the Ca

Bill Keller the outgoing editor of the New York Times pens a column in the NYT magazine this week seeking answers to questions about the religious beliefs of GOP presidential candidates and how those beliefs might impact their governance He snidely suggests that if a candidate claimed belief in

There is a letter circulating the web from the Family Research Council to their members and prospective donors that is being condemned by many for its hateful rhetoric indirectly targeted at children and young adults The letter posted in its entirety below uses the It Gets Better Campaign and

Texas Governor Rick Perry has surged in polls since he announced his candidacy for the GOP nomination and he has come under increased scrutiny especially with his shoot-from-the-hip verbal style Shortly before he announced Perry s Evangelicalism was widely examined when he hosted a massive pr

I was reading Esquire on the flight home to visit friends and family last week when I came across this bit of insight from the actress Helen Mirren The hardest period in life is one s twenties It s a shame because you re your most gorgeous and you re physically in peak condition But it s actually