Steve Kloehn

Dancing and singing, crying and embracing, some of Chicago's most spirited revelers welcomed the new year Friday in churches, where they celebrated the epochal moment with an eye on eternity....

Having agreed to act as a judge in a newspaper art contest that sought a new image of Jesus for the new millennium, Pattie Wigand Sporrong was not sure what...

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan insists that since he lay minutes from death earlier this year he has become a changed man, purified in his heart and newly determined...

Aug. 1, 1999 The calls started coming in on the Sunday morning in August that a story on Mary Gonzales appeared. Some Tribune readers wanted to send Gonzales bags of...

Two major interfaith events--on opposite sides of the planet, and worlds apart in almost every other way--ushered in the month of December 1999. One event was widely covered by American...

Sure as sugar plums getting jiggy, traditional as beer ads depicting horses in the snow, there is an inescapable sign of Yuletide that I expect to hear any day now...

Evelyn Jackson felt abandoned by her South Side Methodist church when her 26-year-old son was dying of AIDS. "My son was ill and dying, and I was not able to...

God has been invoked, no doubt, more than a few times this week in Seattle. Between the protesters, venting their ire at the World Trade Organization by breaking the windows...

Southern Baptists vowed Monday they will press a campaign to bring 100,000 missionaries to Chicago despite the misgivings of local religious leaders, opening a public breach between the Nashville-based evangelicals...

It's that countdown time of year. Some will use traditional Advent calendars, others will mark shopping days until Christmas. But this is not just any old year, as one of...