Steve Kloehn

Love or truth? Religious faith involves many choices, but that's not supposed to be one of them. Still, as the heated debates over homosexuality and Christianity grow continually more polarized,...

Illinois Atty. Gen. Jim Ryan filed suit Wednesday against the World Church of the Creator and its leader, Matthew Hale, alleging that the East Peoria-based white supremacist group is an...

About 100 Orthodox Jews sat on the lawn of First Presbyterian Church in Evanston Wednesday night, listening in on Ricky Byrdsong's funeral. The most obvious explanation for their presence at...

Proof that summer has arrived: The Life@Work Journal, a classy-looking magazine out of Arkansas that announces on the cover that it blends "biblical wisdom and business excellence," has devoted its...

In many parts of the Muslim world, the birthday of the prophet Muhammad will be celebrated Saturday with parades and candles and 21-gun salutes. In other Islamic nations, where the...

With a knack for lobbing symbols like hand grenades, the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention has turned its annual meeting into a summertime conversation starter for the nation. Last...

As a fashion statement, the text of the landmark document "The Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Evangelical Celebration" simply won't cut it. It won't fit on a bracelet, or a...

`We, the People of the State of Illinois--grateful to Almighty God . . . " So begins the preamble to the Illinois Constitution, in which God and government seem to...

As a political slogan, "family values" has gone the way of "national malaise," "Cross of Gold" and "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too." Meant to be a discussion-stopper, a moral trump card...

Against instinct, against taste, against the nagging fear that one might become the unwitting equivalent of a Happy Meal toy in Hollywood's most insidious marketing barrage yet, there stand two...