Hurricane Harvey shut down Sunday services from downtown to the sprawling suburbs, where churches replaced typical worship gatherings with sermon videos posted on Facebook or simply messages to stay safe.

Few disaster relief outfits have been as organized as the Baptist and Methodist networks. Imagine Delores J. Porter’s surprise, then, when she stepped onto the exposed floor joists of her torn-out home to find a troop of young Muslim volunteers.

Many religious activists and experts on the relevant law said the order amounted to a symbolic gesture with little chance of shaking the status quo. Now the Trump administration’s own lawyers have essentially taken the same position.

Integration itself is not the problem. The issue is that in many integrated settings, many of the white people don’t understand black experiences, the struggle or the references, or feel the pain and the pleasure of being black.

A theme of Christian reflections on the first nuclear explosions is that their murderous flashes form a grotesque counterpoint to the Transfiguration, when Jesus appeared to his disciples in a blinding flash of light.

Less than two weeks after a deadly white-supremacist rally, leaders of R.E. Lee Memorial Church found themselves back at the table, with some again pressing the issue of a name change.

If a life can have a crystallizing moment, for Jim Graham that 1993 meeting was it, discovering that his father might have been a Catholic priest, rather than John Graham, the distant man who raised him with scarcely a kind…

Junipero Serra, credited with spreading the Catholic faith across what is now California, was canonized in 2015. But critics say the priest was part of an imperial conquest that enslaved Native Americans, raped their women, and destroyed their culture.

A.R. Bernard has resigned from the White House’s evangelical advisory council, the first departure from that board in the wake of President Trump’s widely condemned comments on a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

The pope reiterated his message from February at an international forum on migration and peace that “our shared response may be articulated by four verbs: to welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate” migrants and refugees.

As three other advisory boards disband following the president’s response to the Virginia violence, Jerry Falwell Jr. tweets support for Trump.

The group, founded in 2003, has grown from a local organization to a burgeoning statewide apparatus with eyes on someday becoming a nationwide force, one able to mobilize conservative Christians around the country into future political battles.