It happened recently at a synagogue in England and two churches in the U.S. Before that, there were high-profile attacks at ...

Newark Advocate faith columnist Jeff Gill explains why attending church is essential to maintaining spiritual health.

As the theologian Gerhard Lohfink puts it in Jesus of Nazareth, “In the East one praises someone by praising his or her mother and abuses someone by slandering her or his mother.” (The same is true ...