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A standard misconception of the religious right is to privilege sexual “sins” over the sin of, say, a lack of economic justice for women. A story from Genesis 38 retold…

A new book on the Scopes “Monkey Trial” reveals history through people, images, and good old soap opera.

Hozan Alan Senauke talks about socially engaged Buddhism, weapons of mass redemption, and “just sitting down” as a radical act.

Rev. Wright’s assertions that it’s really the “Black Church” under attack help reduce the complexity of the religious life of black America to a soundbite…

In the new Russia, where Putin attends Easter services in the capital’s main cathedral, it seems the era of religious repression is over—except if you are a Protestant.

The Rev. Wright controversy begs the question: Has “The Black Church” outgrown its usefulness?

Pew studies the importance of religion in China, Methodists and Lutherans swing both ways, and what media coverage of the fundamentalist Mormons has omitted…

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author tangles with one of the most fraught questions of the day: “The danger for science is that, if forced to choose between God or evolution, most Americans will choose God.”

This Haitian religion, caricatured by Hollywood, maligned as “Satanic,” and dismissed as “primitive,” is getting a facelift.

By slipping into religious language, and evoking “conscience clause” exemptions, it’s becoming clear that this underground movement is readying itself for the mainstream.