Steve Kloehn

This week on network television, presidential candidate Al Gore was asked point-blank whether he had been born again as a Christian. After a bit of hemming and hawing, he replied,...

As members of B'nai Yehuda Beth Sholom in Homewood look back over the Jewish year 5759, which ends Friday, they will grapple with the memory of Jews wounded on the...

One of the ways in which Jews will celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the new year that begins Friday at sundown, is to eat something sweet--a sign of the sweet new year...

Labor Day weekend, in recent years, has been a source of both pride and a touch of uneasiness for Muslim leaders in America. Every year at this time, the continent's...

One of the world's best-known proponents of non-violence took center stage in Chicago on Saturday, telling parents and teachers that it is not enough to teach compassion and tolerance--they must...

Plenty has been written about the Kansas Board of Education's decision to cut the word "evolution" from its standards for teaching science. Attentive readers now know how atheists and creationists...

As a piece of intellectual chicanery, it would be hard to outdo the Kansas Board of Education's decision last week to excise the word "evolution" from its standards for teaching...

Turnstiles at the United Center will be spinning this weekend, as some 12,000 women make their way into a religious conference titled "Outrageous Joy." Judging from the speaker list and...

The controversial Christian ministry Exodus International--which counsels homosexuals to renounce their sexual practices and lifestyle--arrived in Wheaton this week, bringing with it triumphant hymns of praise, the anger of protesters...

Antioch was the city where the early Christian church learned that most modern of skills, accommodating change. It was in Antioch, according to the New Testament Book of Acts, that...