Elections matter. In them individual decisions determine the direction of a community, state or nation. As important as the upcoming November selection is, however, there is another decision that ...

Find today’s readings here. I’ve often struggled with the theological idea of “election”—the idea that only some people are chosen by God. It comes up over and over: “Many are called but few are ...

Few ideas in religious history, however, have exercised as much influence or provoked as much debate as the belief that a particular people were uniquely chosen by God. For centuries this doctrine has ...