U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler has ruled that the federal agency that oversees AmeriCorps must stop financing programs that...

“You have to change with the times,” says megachurch pastor Joel Osteen. “If Jesus were here he’d change with...

“There was a cartoon a few weeks ago, I forget where, and there was a drawing of someone giving...

Reuters’s Parisa Hafezi reports on concern among some Iranian clergy that a secular, democratic Iraq may shift the balance of power...

Shortly before meeting with Vatican officials, Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, made a rare public statement of his...

30 June 2004 Describing the intentions behind his visit to Sudanese officials, Colin Powell told reporters: “I hope to...

“Pastors say they never instruct their congregations how to vote, but in many ways they don’t have to. Even...

Timorese Foreign Minister and Nobel peace prize winner Jose Ramos Horta warned yesterday that God could punish Australia if...

NPR’s Barbara Bradley Hagerty begins a three part series on religion in the workplace with a profile of the HomeBanc Mortgage...

The Rev. Lon Solomon counts among his congregants and close friends Bush commerce secretary Don Evans, Clinton prosecutor Kenneth...

Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet celebrates I.B. Singer’s 100th birthday – and the demons with which he populated his stories — in the...

Lunchtime in the Cafeteria of “Spiritual Anorexia”: Linda Stewart Ball, of The Dallas Morning News, reports on the four-day Dallas conference...

“‘In heaven there is no beer, that’s why we drink it here.'” The National Enquirer stumbles into Denver’s prayerful nightclub, The...

Crossroads in Sweetwater: The Sweetwater Reporter describes a recent group of visitors to the small Texan town: the prolife pilgrims of...

“Put on a church hat and I had instant class, a bunch of class.'” Annette John-Hall writes on black women, church...

Are media misconceptions of evangelicals about to start working in their political favor? By Kathryn Joyce After The Los Angeles...

A Moscow ruling bans the Jehovah’s Witnesses, after a six-year court battle over the group’s legal registration under Russia’s...

From The Washington Times: “More than a dozen lawmakers attended a congressional reception this year honoring the Rev. Sun Myung...

French-Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun recently won the $120,000 IMPAC Dublin literary award for his novel, This Blinding Absence of...

British football, writes the BBC’s Stephen Tomkins, “doesn’t just look like worship, it has taken over almost all the patterns of British...

“‘Our hopes are that God will intervene prior to the rest of us dying,’ said Clive Doyle, caretaker of...

By Jeff Sharlet: Religion in politics: David Brooks “gets it” as usual, and once he’s got it — the...

“Today thousands of Chabad faithful are expected to gather in Queens, N.Y., at the grave of Rabbi Menachem M....