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A surgeon explains how traditional Navajo healing modalities can inform medical practice.

Recent drama at the American Psychiatric Association reminds us that the arguments on both sides of the gay/ex-gay dispute fall short of the mark.

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.

When the media labels a religious group a “cult,” it fans the flames of intolerance and can endanger the group’s most vulnerable members.

In Vienna a museum gave in to pressure from the religious right and pulled a picture…

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.”