Steve Kloehn

Rev. Al Spilly and Cardinal Joseph Bernardin rewrote one another almost every day for a dozen years, but there is one editing session that stands out in Spilly's mind. Spilly...

Once upon a time, Chicago was the city where the Great Lakes brought the ocean to the prairie. Then it was the city where the great railroads of the East...

This Saturday's Visakha Festival in Evanston, one of the largest Buddhist festivals in the United States, is a good lesson in ecumenism, Buddhist-style. From 9:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m., more...

Bombing Yugoslavia feels wrong to many Americans, and no wonder. For a month now, the world's most sophisticated military has unloaded thousands of high-tech bombs and missiles, mostly by remote...

In the midst of a hectic Holy Week, I heard a definition of the word "sloth" that instantly beamed the quaintest of deadly sins right into the world of Palm...

Next Tuesday, on Yom Hashoah, Jews and many gentiles will stop to reflect on the Holocaust. By a consensus as broad as any in America, that remembrance is considered natural...

Historically the convergence of Passover and Good Friday has meant, among other things, a dangerous time in Jewish-Christian relations. The gospel stories of Jesus Christ's passion have, at various times...

The Nation of Islam said Wednesday that Louis Farrakhan's "prognosis is excellent," as the controversial leader spent his second day at Howard University Hospital with an undisclosed illness. The statement...

The klieg lights are on in Downers Grove this week, as national media and the United Methodist Church follow the peculiar phenomenon of Rev. Greg Dell's church trial, a theo-judicial...

After an afternoon of testimony, the United Methodist Church today rested its case against Rev. Gregory Dell, the minister accused of violating church law by performing a "holy union" ceremony...