Nancy Butler, founding pastor of the Riverfront Family Church in Hartford, Conn., is in the final stage of Lou Gehrig’s disease. There was one thing the disease was not going to take from her: the right time to die.

Stephen Hawking’s visit to the Vatican this week has raised curiosity, with some asking what exactly the famed astrophysicist and self-proclaimed atheist was doing in the heart of the Catholic Church.

The story’s upshot seems to be: Two popular celebrities might oppose same-sex marriage because the pastor of the church they go to opposes same-sex marriage, but I haven’t heard one way or the other.

A post-election lesson from Jimmy Carter.

Richard Stengel, the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, bluntly states the problem that has been worrying him and should worry us all: “In a global information war, how does the truth win?”

The stakes of climate change are huge — as your dad himself once argued. So what gives?

As a result of the presidential election, much of the good that went by the name “evangelicalism” has been clouded over; now a new movement is needed to replace it.

The federal government’s decision to pursue Dylann Roof’s execution is widely questioned, and it is in defiance of the wishes and recommendations of survivors of the attack, many family members of the dead and some Justice Department officials.

Growing numbers of synagogues and churches as well as two dozen U.S. cities are offering protection amid the threat of deportation under the Trump administration.