Members of First Baptist Church of Christ, one of Macon, Ga.’s, oldest churches, on Sunday overwhelmingly approved allowing same-sex marriage ceremonies in the church.

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.