Steve Kloehn

The story of how a little Pentecostal church in the city ended up sending its stained glass windows to a North Shore synagogue, and how the synagogue ended up having...

In this beeping, yapping, chirping, thumping world, a world mesmerized by the cult of interactivity, a photograph has the distinct advantage of being silent. Micah Marty's photographs, however, are not...

It was a year ago this Sunday that I found myself in a packed hotel meeting room, peppered by questions from several hundred Muslims. "Why do you people in the...

Gospel Temple Baptist Church, on Chicago's Far South Side, was never a big church, but it was always strong. Its 200 or so worshipers included middle-class members from the south...

In the great American arm-wrestling match over homosexuality and religion, you don't need a program to figure out who stands on which side. On Wednesday in Washington, for instance, two...

Pope John Paul II is not just countercultural, he's multicountercultural. He challenges the prevailing norms of virtually every culture he addresses. To Communists, he preaches freedom. To capitalists, he preaches...

To listen to their self-descriptions, you would think the Boy Scouts of America and the Unitarian Universalist Association would get along famously. A Boy Scout, according to Scout law, "is...

The important thing in organized worship isn't where you go, but what you say and do when you get there, right? After all, the pope can say mass in a...

In the dark hours before dawn, when the only distraction is the beating of my heart, I sometimes hear a still, small voice speaking inside of me. It says, "What...

Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between inspiration and desperation. Sometimes there is no difference. Whatever the case, it is worth watching what goes on in Ottawa this...