FitzGerald, author of “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America” and a highly regarded journalist, speaks about the past and future of evangelicalism as a religious and political force in American life.

The Department of Defense now recognizes 216 religions. The Armed Forces Chaplains Board says the changes were made to better measure the religious makeup of the military and thereby provide more targeted spiritual support for them.

With zip-ties on their wrists, the Rev. William Barber and 31 other protesters were led away by police as supporters continued protest chants in support of health care for all.

Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega had been locked up in a federal prison outside Miami for less than a week when a package arrived with his name on it. Inside was a leather-bound copy of the Soul Winner’s New Testament.

It is hard to imagine a time or place more opposed to the gospel than fifth-century Ireland.

Instead of building a church, Answers in Genesis is sharing its teachings through a controversial biblical theme park designed to attract believers and nonbelievers alike.

The chilly relationship between mainline Protestantism and the popular marketplace has become a feature of the mainline’s self-understanding. The more that evangelicals and Pentecostals dominate megachurches and TV, the more that mainline pastors seem disinclined to enter the fray.

Some white supremacists have turned to an ancient religion known as Odinism and in at least six cases since 2001, professed racist Odinists have been convicted of domestic terrorism attacks, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Coptic Christians in southern Egypt early Friday, killing at least 26 people, according to a church official, in the latest deadly assault on the country’s embattled religious minority.