Lexico defines "endogamy" as "the custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan or tribe;" and "exogamy" as "the custom of marrying outside a community, clan or tribe.” On the ...

Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain spoke about how faith influences their policies during a recent forum at California's Saddleback Church. But some in faith community may still have ...

Here is one list of vital spiritual practices: compassion, contemplating scriptures, finding silence/stillness, forgiveness, gratitude, honest introspection, humility, loosening your grip on control, ...

Democratic presidential candidates have talked a lot about God this year, but are they willing to debate the divine? In years past, the prospect of Democratic candidates discussing faith in the course ...

Something Pope Benedict XVI said about immigration while he was in the U.S. sent CNN commentator Lou Dobbs into a rant that went something like, “We don’t need popes or preachers telling us what to ...

Influential pastor Rick Warren says it's "flat out impossible" that John McCain had an unfair advantage at his presidential forum on faith and values.

KELLER, Texas (RNS) — On Sunday evening (March 6) inside Northwood Church, an evangelical megachurch in a Dallas suburb resembling a tasteful convention center, the sanctuary’s stadium seating was ...

"God compels us to get in the game," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Tuesday at one of a series of "Faith Forums" he is holding across Alabama to promote church-based activism against ...

(RNS) — Tonight's candidates' volubility about faith matters could make the first debate a free-for-all once religion comes up. (RNS) — Democratic presidential candidates have talked a lot about God ...