The conventional guidance, parroted as if it were gospel, goes something like: Be generous, follow your passions and do enough research to verify that a chosen charity won’t squander your money. It’s not that simple.

Some object that using taxpayer funds to rebuild houses of worship would violate separation of church and state, but proponents argue that religious groups, which are often at the forefront of disaster relief efforts, are being unfairly disadvantaged.

The reactions to revelations of sexual abuse by the late theologian John Howard Yoder, and especially to a recent published response to Yoder’s actions by theologian Stanley Hauerwas, continue to prompt wide-ranging conversations. Here are two of the latest.

Besides growing a church with new converts to Christianity, New City Church’s central mission is to slow, stop, and even turn back the negative effects of gentrification in urban Minneapolis communities.

There is a vast difference between the reality and the rhetoric of religious freedom, which is often considered to be the ideal that promotes harmony and equality. But history suggests that it does, in fact, lead to more conflict.

There are two important things to know about the religious freedom/wedding cake case. One is that it’s not about religious freedom — it’s about religious exemption. The other is that it’s about a whole lot more than wedding cakes.

The national body of the Baptist Church in Australia has formally apologised to victims of domestic violence who it says have been let down by churches’ “ignorance” and “failure” to care for abused congregants.

The answer in majority-Buddhist Burma hinges on one controversial word: Rohingya.

Don’t call First Nations Kitchen a soup line. Yes, it serves dinners to those who can’t afford them. But it is run by indigenous people for indigenous people and features a menu of the ancestral foods of indigenous people.