New mosques often stir up local resistance and anti-Muslim sentiment. Even when they get built, the blowback can be intense.

Much of the organized Jewish community has long championed strict separation between religion and government, and for good ...

The Bible Belt’ has been used for a century to describe religion and politics in the South. But it captured just some of life ...

It puzzles me that there are Christians unwilling to accept people who, for one reason or another, are inherently different ...

With thousands from El Salvador about to lose legal status, pastors say opposition to aggressive enforcement is uniting ...

Rabbis in the U.S. say their congregations are feeling unsettled by antisemitic threats as the High Holy Days approach. Rabbi ...

The disturbing imagery of blood sacrifice may seem alien to modern life, but its meaning remains central to an understanding ...

Americans are not too healthy, either physically or mentally, but they are certainly obsessed with health. Countless ...

The appeal of Parton's spirituality grew over time, even as the ways she talked about God shifted, writes Sarah Dees.

The mystical makes sense on these islands. It’s in the maps, the land. The sweeping cliffs and shifting sea — navy, royal, crystalline — “make belief believable,” as Flannery O’Connor once wrote. And ...

A Chinese lawyer who defended an underground church in Beijing has fled to Taiwan and is seeking help for resettlement.

Next Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Muslim Americans shared in the nation’s grief and fear that day and carried the additional burden of being singled out for ...