Reinhold Niebuhr

Every week on the lecture trail, I meet progressives who are demoralized and/or infuriated by Barack Obama's performance as president. They insist that they will not work for him again or even vote for him. Many have signed petitions saying as much....

Q. Many successful sports, showbiz and business people credit faith in God for their success. But a recent article in the Wall Street Journal discusses winners at this year’s Grammy awards and their belief that it’s not just faith that’s...

Elmhurst College brought him his first taste of the world of ideas. It is only fitting, then, that Reinhold Niebuhr return the favor: He's bringing …...

Osama bin Laden was killed by an elite group of Navy SEALs and, like many people, my first reaction was "wow." After that, however, things got a bit more complicated as I struggled with my human and patriotic feelings in the context of my faith....

Leon Howell, an author and essayist who was the last editor of the influential liberal-tilting journal Christianity and Crisis, has died. He was 73. Howell died Feb. 26 at his home in Silver Spring, Md. He had suffered for years from a viral spinal...

June 30, 2008 At 166 pages, "The Book of Getting Even" is a mortar shot of a novel -- the trajectory is steep, the narrative moves at tremendous velocity and the book ends with a bang. Yet it also is a bittersweet and redemptive love story, richly...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. should be considered America's greatest Christian theologian, for he was the man whose activism made social justice a component of religion, noted author and professor James Cone said Sunday. Cone, founder of the...