Over the past three decades, church attendance has been on a steady decline. The Methodist, Lutheran, and Protestant church attendance has dropped by 30%, according to a Gallup poll released this week ...

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the United States and Western Europe devoted much diplomacy and foreign aid to helping the former USSR and the countries of Eastern Europe develop civil society ...

I began to write this as preparations were being made in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral. His impact and benevolent expression of power came from his openness to all people, no matter their vastly ...