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INTERVIEW BY TIM HEIN he seduction of power, both individual and institutional, is a tale as old as time. Within the church, the misuse and abuse of authority has taken [...]

IN THE PAST FEW YEARS the editors have gotten to know Christian Wiman, a poet, and Matt Fitzgerald, a pastor. Both have written for the CENTURY. We recently learned that [...]

If any scholar could claim a ring-side seat to the liturgical reform of the 20th century, it would have to be Father Robert Taft, S.J. Taft recalls being surprised when […]

Will someone I know get sick, and maybe die? I don't know. 'I don't know if the administration will make sense or create confusion. I don't know if anthrax will [...]

Saturday, July 6, 2002. After countless schedule changes, a confidentiality agreement and more publishing drama than one can imagine, I'm finally in the offices of the Reverend Al Sharpton's National [...]

Tim Costello, Pres of the Baptist Union of Australia, states that he was aware of his public persona before he became well-known. He believes that he has the ability to cut through cultural barriers to speak on a wide range of issues.

A. Knighton Stanley, senior minister of the Peoples Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, DC, indicates that he is influential because he is seen as dependable. He believes that churches are the most segregated institution in the US.

ON SUNDAY MORNINGS, the Reverend Stephen Blackmer sends his congregation of many faiths to wander in the woods--106 acres of rolling hills and wetlands in Canterbury, New Hampshire. Blackmer places [...]

Kevin Anderson, who began his acting career in the theater, plays a rebellious young priest on 'Nothing Sacred.' Objections to the TV show from the Catholic League have made it a center of controversy, but its producers are refusing to bow to conservative pressure and change the show.

Katie Geneva Cannon is a woman who has covered some territory. The view from her office in Temple University's Department of Religion overlooks urban Philadelphia, a long way from Kannapolis, [...]

A decade ago, Jerry Falwell was the most visible preacher in America. He led the Moral Majority, which had thrust religious conservatives into politics; he headed what he called 'the [...]

Williams was first rejected by parishioners of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, CA, but he liberated the rigid church to include people of all backgrounds. He believes that music has been an important key in attracting parishioners., The Reverend Cecil Williams is a local hero in San Francisco. His church, Glide Memorial, is an urban refuge for the spiritually disenfranchised of every race, class, and sexuality. Here's [...]

Leonard initiated the liturgical movement in the Catholic Church after observing a lack of religious belief among World War II soldiers. He inspires people to praise God with their voices and conduct and to view associations with religion as a privilege., I'm glad you asked, because I have just published an autobiography, The Letter Carrier (Sheed & Ward, 1993) which answers that at some length. Since you want me to tell [...]

IT'S SO COMMON NOW, it no longer makes headlines: In the midst of the deepest recession in decades, over 15 million Americans are looking for work. They search diligently and [...]

Nearly a year after the World Trade Center towers collapsed, the aftershocks of the terrorist attacks are still being felt in the hearts and psyches of millions of New Yorkers [...]

Reverend Al Sharpton has been a controversial activist in New York City since 1982. Sued successfully for defamation for his role in the 1987 Tawana Brawley case, Rev. Sharpton has [...]

'Recovering the founder's charism'--this is how Lawrence Goyette, F.S.C., described the impulse that led to the opening of the first-ever San Miguel School--a middle school that began almost a decade [...]

Sunrise Presbyterian Church pastor Don Schroeder, of Salina, Kan., retired recently. Parishioners might remember Schroeder for his note-free, storytelling sermons, but his true passion and joy was -- and is [...]

The Revs. Rob and Paul Schenck have found a fertile mission field in Washington, teaching the powerful about the authority of the Ten Commandments. The Revs. Rob and Paul Schenck, [...]

AN INTERVIEW WITH HUSTON SMITH World religions scholar Huston Smith talks about the battle between science and faith, his own spiritual journey, and why the world needs religion more than [...]

Founded by singer and pastor Wintley Phipps, the U.S. Dream Academy provides at-risk children with values-based tutoring, mentoring and stability. Wintley Phipps, the widely admired singer of gospel and other [...]

The goal of Southeast Ministry in Washington is to break the cycle of poverty by using a tough-love approach grounded in the principles of Christianity. Southeast Ministry, based in the [...]

"He just got that skiff," sheila bradshaw tells me, "and he's a-worryin' us to death." It is Sunday afternoon, and I'm sitting at the Bradshaw kitchen table in tiny Rhodes […]

Fr. Donald B. Cozzens, whose most recent book is The Changing Face of the Priesthood: A Reflection of the Priest's Crisis of Soul, has resigned as president-rector of Saint Mary [...]

With his 33rd book ready for publication, Robert Schuller celebrates two golden anniversaries: 50 years of ministry and 50 years of marriage. When Rev. Robert Schuller and his wife, Arvella, [...]

THE REV. EUGENE F. RIVERS III is pastor of the Azusa Christian Community in Dorchester, Mass., and a co-founder of the Boston Ten Point Coalition and of the National Ten [...]

Could his case be a watershed moment in the annals of cardiovascular surgery? Gene therapy was the only hope left for the Reverend Charles Wilson. When he got on the [...]