Randall Armor, CC BY-NC-ND -- Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University -- Congregational membership in the United States is slowly declining. Data from the General Social Survey show that 17 percent of Americans attended a religious gathering weekly in the 1990s. By 2010, this [...]

By Dorothy Le -- While the rest of the world sees the Holocaust as a tragic period in history, there are a great number of those who still suffer daily from its cruel aftermath. Those who have managed to survive, whether [...]

Cardinals, bishops and priests renew their vows of celibacy, poverty and obedience with Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, April 9, 1998. AP Photo/Plinio Lepri | By Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University -- Priestly celibacy, or rather [...]

By Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross-- On Monday, Jan. 2, Shaker Sister Frances Carr died at the age of 89. She had been a Shaker for almost 80 years and passed away at the Shaker community at Sabbathday [...]

By Dorothy Le-- In 1219, a young and impoverished Christian monk sets out from Italy in the midst of the bloody Fifth Crusade, to cross enemy lines in hopes to speak with the Muslim Sultan of Egypt in order to end [...]