Even fans of McKibben may not know that the founder of the 350.org environmental nonprofit is also a religious man who has written passionately and extensively about the spiritual underpinnings of his drive to save the planet.

The former campus of Baptist University of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas, has been abandoned for months after the school moved to a new location.

Annie Peguero was trying to soothe her agitated 19-month-old baby in church on Sunday when she did what she often does — she nursed her. But her efforts to calm her daughter caused a stir in the sanctuary.

Why were these independent churches so effective in appealing to China’s burgeoning middle class? And how do they survive despite government efforts to rein in religious groups not part of government-run places of worship?

Jesus, it seems, could see women as people.

Do powerful people read Niebuhr because he tells them to act with humility and caution? Or is it because Niebuhr tells them that moral men have to play hardball?

After a rousing speech at last summer’s Democratic National Convention, Barber might have become the president’s pastor. Instead, he’s now the face of a progressive Christian protest movement that’s taking its fight from North Carolina to the White House.

Prejean’s work opposing capital punishment was captured in her book and film Dead Man Walking, and now she’s speaking out against a spate of planned killings.

In the corner of the public square where people of faith cluster, debate rages on whether it’s possible to engage a militantly secular age, or if retreat is, borrowing Leonard Cohen’s immortal phrase, “the only engine of survival.”

When any and all research can be contemptuously waved away with the smear of “political correctness” and every verifiable fact can be beaten back with talk of “media bias,” we’ve got to fight for the right to make certain distinctions.

Pope Francis urged governments to get migrants and refugees out of holding centers, saying many had become “concentration camps.”

Harassment, vandalism and other hostile acts against Jewish people and sites in the U.S. increased by 34 percent last year and are up 86 percent through the first three months of 2017, according to data released Monday.