Local officials prevent events featuring U.S. evangelist Luis Palau.

An increasingly popular view of the atonement forces the question: What are we saved from?

An immigration judge was distressed that 'Li claimed that Thanksgiving was a Christian holiday.'

The Rev. Steve Lawler faced being defrocked if he continued to practice Islamic rituals for Lent.

Would C.S. Lewis have renounced Turkish Delight from Ash Wednesday to Easter?

A meditation on corporate confession for Ash Wednesday.

Why some people may want to abandon New Year's resolutions as soon as possible.

Recalling the earth-shaking, kingdom-sized message of Christmas.

The remarkable announcement to Mary—and us.

Christian authors discuss the best Christmas story not in the Bible.

Four days of Advent readings, excerpted from 'God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas.' By Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Advent prompts a larger, cosmic question: What do I do while waiting?

Jesus is interested in the oddest things.

Why the rescue of the Chilean miners was a "great miracle," and what it tells us about Hanukkah.

Like the settlers of Plymouth Colony, today's refugees and asylum seekers have fled their homelands because of persecution of several kinds—not just religious.

Why Jesus commands us to be thankful.

Should churches ban carols with questionable theology?

A new study suggests that evangelical pastors have been more likely to take public stances and candidates than their mainline cohorts.

The season's gladdest tidings in new holiday albums.