Steve Kloehn

Each day before the Illinois House gets down to business, a member of the clergy offers a prayer for guidance and inspiration. Sometimes, the prayer mentions the issues of the...

Nearly 99 years into the "ecumenical century," the century that was supposed to bring about unity among all Christians, the jigsaw puzzle that represents The Church remains scattered about, in...

When the ground trembles in rural California, just enough to make leaves quiver on the trees and ripples rise in standing water, there are two ways to look at it....

People at the Newport Church of God in Christ, the small Pentecostal congregation in Madison, Ill., where Norvell Woolfolk grew up, were accustomed to hearing worshipers speak in tongues. But...

There are two ways to look at the controversies, almost clocklike in their regularity, that have arisen in what should be the golden era of Jewish-Catholic relations. The first is...

His real name is Glendal, one of those colloquial variations that sprout from time to time amid the coal mines, oil fields and timber stands of deep southern Illinois. Some...

For his 20th anniversary as pope Friday, John Paul II received millions of greetings and thousands of tributes, in worship, in print, in broadcast media and in intellectual forums around...

All the talk of Harry Caray's ghost I could ignore. The signs with intercessory prayers to Harry--I figured they were offered tongue-in-cheek, the kind of joke Cubs fans make compulsively,...

If you gathered all the declarations against capital punishment that religious organizations in America have made over the years, they could probably wallpaper Anthony Porter's cell on Death Row. But...

The Comeback Kid may be engineering one of the greatest comebacks of all time: the return of serious, public consideration of religion. The more explicit the discussion of President Clinton's...