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Alternative rock, with its default anti-establishment stance (whether feigned or forthright) has not been the typical go-to place for sincere religious music. That may be changing. Though stylistically diverse, several recent releases show a unique motif: treating religious histories and sacred texts as fonts of wisdom, experience, and poetry.

Even if they did, that’s not why they lost.

Catholic Church: LGBT Catholics, Conservative Christians Jockey as Family Synod Approaches The Ways of Love: International Conference for a Pastoral Care with Homosexual and Transsexual People, took…

Day one of the fasting month is best described as “the almost day.” We are almost into the fast and yet we are almost like the preceding non-fast days.

The “Restoring Honor” rally may have had a lot of religious talk about freedom and rebirth, but it offered nothing new.

In the words of Jon Stewart: “You go, and then I’ll go…”

This is the first of November. Before this month is over, I will make a major status change.

I just wanted to get off the phone, so I could say out loud a soft, “yes!”, make a silent prayer of gratitude, and then just cry a little.

Some of John Mellencamp’s latest offering was recorded in a black church in Georgia, where he got baptized to boot. What does it mean when a place like First African comes to serve as a stand-in for authenticity? What’s the myth behind the music?

To read the Qur’an “properly” is to read it with full tajwid.