Steve Kloehn

At Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, one of the largest churches in the nation, Easter was heralded in the bookstore with a 20 percent markdown on Bibles, to...

One by one, worshipers at Holy Communion Lutheran Church will carry off the church's most treasured objects Friday afternoon. Accompanied only by the echoes of their final prayer, Psalm 22--"My...

Huge blow! Major setback! Grave danger! Grievous wound! Choose your favorite metaphor of moral outrage, and you can be assured that somebody uttered it last June 25, the day the...

If you listened closely enough, there were always voices protesting religious persecution in China, from missionaries to human rights groups to followers of the Dalai Lama. But they were seldom...

Punch the words "religion" and "homosexual" into the 13-year-old computer archive here at the baiduhai, and the machine pulls up a total of 761 stories that cover both. Make...

After seeing the inside of 500 prisons, after hearing thousands of firsthand tales of downward-spiraling violence, Bo Lozoff has observed something about crime and punishment in this nation. It reminds...

For six years, the evangelical Christian men's movement Promise Keepers prompted more journalistic head-scratching than any other story in religion. Male reporters joined Promise Keepers' pilgrimages to distant stadiums, riding...

So a rabbi, a Muslim, two Protestants and an Orthodox priest go to the Vatican one day to see the pope . . . And they would hardly have been...

Along with demon rum, smuggling and other dangers to working-class England in the 18th Century, gambling helped kindle the fiery evangelism that evolved into the Protestant movement known as Methodism....

As he changed jobs this week, Rev. Michael Place shed one of the most ungainly titles ever crammed onto a business card: "Consul for Policy Development (and) Research Theologian to...