Look here,” he showed me, “all these buds. I’ll be cutting off what could be flowers.”It was January in western Pennsylvania, windy, cold with freezing temperatures prepared to stay.   But the man who ...

The women who would be war heroes For many Americans, the tears never stopped. While the 1973 Paris Peace Accords stilled the ...

“This is not a Bible just for Mennonites,” says Anabaptism at 500 project director John Roth.

Cobb envisioned theology as a force for transformation. He believed theology was not about abstract speculation or ...

Sometimes the harm caused by breaking a promise is less than the harm caused by keeping it.

After his 1980 defeat, Carter devoted himself to the causes of a progressive evangelicalism that has all but disappeared from ...

Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, was known most as the 39th president of the United States. But he also will be ...

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Rebecca McCarthy traces Norman Maclean’s poetic sensibilities from his University of Chicago classroom to A River Runs ...

Emily Conroy-Krutz chronicles the complex relationship between Protestant missionaries and the US Foreign Service in the ...