A new paradigm for Christian engagement? Indeed, 1,800 years ago the church was confronted by as much religious diversity as exists in a major metropolis today, and its first theologians worked hard ...

The bourgeoisie came to power because it was the class of the developing economy. The proletariat will never come to embody power unless it becomes the class of consciousness. – Guy Debord, Society of ...

In an earlier essay for NCR, I described how I, as a male religious priest, have been helped in my ministry by investigating the implications of conscious evolution. I attempted to respond to Cardinal ...

Lent is well underway and with Easter occurring April 4 this year, readers looking for new approaches to the season will find much to ponder in new titles that offer deeper looks at the humanity, ...

How did Jesus come to believe that he had to go to Jerusalem to suffer and die? We can thank the local synagogue school for teaching Jesus to read the Scriptures and the local rabbi for inviting him ...

As Sean Bean read the screenplay for “The Young Messiah,” the story of a young Jesus Christ just beginning to understand who he is, the actor says it was the parts of the story that he didn’t know ...