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Night after night, Bob Dylan’s 1979 gospel concerts at San Francisco’s Warfield Theatre made news for all the wrong reasons, according to angry fans.
The Nov. 11 show that year opened with Dylan roaring into “Gotta Serve Somebody” from “Slow Train Coming,” …
Archbishop Joseph Cordileone leads the Archdiocese of San Francisco, a symbolic city in debates about modern American culture.
But what matters the most, as tensions rise among Catholic leaders, is that Cordileone is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hometown …
When training pastors and chaplains, educators frequently stress the need for boundaries between work and home.
Clergy need — somehow — to find “personal” time, along with face-to-face contact with loved ones. That challenge became more difficult in the …
Catholic leaders often whisper about “Christmas and Easter Catholics”: people whose names are found on parish membership rolls, but who are rarely seen in the pews – except during crowded Christmas and Easter rites.
Thus, any study of the COVID-19 pandemic …
Another day, with yet another funeral. Catholics in Nigeria have buried many priests and believers killed in their country’s brutal wars over land, cattle, honor and religion. But this was…
When megachurch pastor J.D. Greear became the 62nd president of the Southern Baptist Convention, he saw all kinds of statistics headed in all kinds of directions.
After decades of growth, America’s largest Protestant flock faced steady decline as many …
It’s a hymn that the faithful start singing whenever a Baptist church organist plays the opening chords – because everyone knows it by heart.
All together now: “When peace like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll; whatever my lot, …
Year after year, the Lion’s Club sets up wire-frame Christmas decorations on the lawn of the historic Jackson County courthouse, facing Main Street in Brownstown, Indiana. The display, which belongs…
Halfway between Norway and the North Pole, scientists have buried a million seeds and crop samples under a mountain in the Svalbard archipelago – in case an environmental doomsday comes to pass.
That strategy rings true during “this crazy, chaotic season,” …
Having reached the vice president’s chair in the U.S. Senate, the self-proclaimed QAnon shaman, UFO expert and metaphysical healer removed his coyote-skin and buffalo horns headdress and announced, with a megaphone, that it was time to pray.
“Thank you, …
