Baptismal rituals in glacial lands hold memories of the past—and wisdom for facing climate change.

In her 1993 hymn, “Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom,” the Ruth C. Duck personified wisdom as “she who clears the path to ...

Donna Jackson is a communications specialist for the United Church of Christ. From theological reflections to breaking ...

John D. Roth is project director of MennoMedia’s Anabaptism at 500 project, which commemorates the first adult baptisms in Zurich in January 1525—the symbolic start of the Anabaptist movement. Before ...

Some time ago, I started to notice a habit shared by many of the mainline clergy of my acquaintance. Whenever a subject comes up that touches on their professional expertise, they turn awkward and ...

A group representing the leaders of the United States’s largest Jewish organizations has written a letter to Pope Francis criticizing his recent condemnation of Israeli airstrikes that killed 25 ...

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 ...

For many Americans, the tears never stopped. While the 1973 Paris Peace Accords stilled the guns of the Vietnam War, they did not still the legacy of atrocities on all sides nor the record of leaders’ ...

Peter Tanaka is a fourth-year student at Union and cochair of its student senate. He identifies as half Japanese and half ...

The square in the Neumarkt area of Zurich where Conrad Grebel lived in 1525, and where began the Anabaptist movement on ...

A Vietnamese monk who became an internet hit last year is going international.Thich Minh Tue, 44, is on a 1,650-mile barefoot ...