In what one official called the “penultimate” step toward full communion with the United Methodist Church, delegates at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s biennial assembly overwhelmingly ...

Read the main article on why hymnals matter. Controversy sells. It sells newspapers, journals and movies. It may even sell conference registrations, to judge from the frequency with which I’m asked to ...

Pope Francis exchanges sign of peace with Archbishop Charles J. Chaput during closing Mass of the World Meeting of Families. (Credit: Rick Musacchio, Tennessee Register/CNS.) Listen God “loved me ...

Several years ago, once my boys were old enough not to need the steadying presence of my husband and me in the pew, I joined my church choir. I had sung in my middle school and high school choruses, ...