THE CONGREGATION, a new cinema vérité documentary by Alan and Susan Raymond, profiles a progressive United Methodist church in the midst of profound change as it struggles with the arrival of a new ...

Does this sound familiar? Your congregation has a committee with a name like "Outreach" or "Mission" or "Social Concerns" whose job is to dole out small amounts to an increasingly large number of good ...

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, the senior rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan, is retiring at a challenging time for the gay rights movement. Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum at her final service as ...

Early one morning last fall, Nathaniel Felder left his home, in Maplewood, New Jersey, dressed in a navy sweatshirt and a gray yarmulke. After putting on a backpack, he walked to Irvington Avenue, the ...