“I think we’re in a special window right now. There’s a lot of energy around collegiate ministry,” Adrian McMullen, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s associate for collegiate ministries, told about two dozen people attending the Collegiate Ministries Conference here.

Earlier this summer, Malawian religious leaders and people living with HIV met for a day of dialogue about HIV-related stigma and discrimination and how faith groups can respond at a national level.

The low roar of a typical Synod School lunch last week gave way to a dancing, smiling ― and slightly wobbling ― throng of junior high school youth performing in a brief flash mob for delighted, surprised diners.

For one hot August night, the St. Paul Saints, a Minnesota minor league baseball team, will become the “Mr. Paul Aints” in a game sponsored by a local atheist group.

Leaders of an ecumenical group have criticized the Philippine government for continuing a policy of exporting labor, causing many Filipinos to suffer not only separation from their families, but threats to their lives overseas.