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Don Ryan / AP The Divided Methodist Church
The Christian denomination is considering schism, largely over LGBT issues. The fight shows the difficulty of trying to create a global church.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court's Nonsense Ruling in Zubik
The challenge from religious non-profits to Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate got sent back down to the lower courts, creating a lot of uncertainty.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Federal Government Quietly Expands Transgender Rights
In a new ruling Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services said Obamacare outlaws discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
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Bruno Domingos / Reuters Should Women Be Able to Abort a Fetus Just Because It’s Female?
A new wave of state legislation prohibits the termination of a pregnancy based on sex, race, and genetic abnormality.
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Jim Young / Reuters State-Mandated Mourning for Aborted Fetuses
A new Indiana law is part of a wave of legislation that requires burial or cremation following abortions. What’s behind it?
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AP Women Deacons?
Pope Francis has said he’ll create a commission to study the possibility of females serving as deacons the Church. What does this mean for Catholics?
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Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters Spirituality May Help HIV Patients Survive Longer
A new study suggests certain coping techniques are associated with longer life spans in sick patients.
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Jacob Watson / Flickr Should Courts Get to Define Religion?
The Massachusetts Supreme Court will decide whether a local shrine should be tax-exempt—a decision that could have broad implications for faith organizations in America.
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Neil Hall / Reuters How Male Theologians Ruined Parenting
A pastor and a rabbi talk about kids, poop, and tearing down the patriarchy in institutional religion.
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Mark Blinch / Reuters Religious-Liberty Laws That Have No Meaning
Tennessee is just the latest state to pass legislation claiming to protect conservatives who object to LGBT relationships and identity.
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Nickelodeon How Rugrats Made Me Feel Comfortable in America
The long-running cartoon’s representation of Judaism was one of the first on television.
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Andrey Popov / Shutterstock / Paul Spella / … When Doctors Refuse to Treat LGBT Patients
A new law in Mississippi makes it legal for physicians and therapists to opt out of care on religious grounds. What does this mean for medicine?
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Alessandra Tarantino / AP The Bizarre Love Affair of Bernie and Francis
The senator and the pope met on Saturday, the next chapter in a long-standing, unlikely alliance.
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Courtesy of BAPS Houston South Asia in South Texas
An Indian and Pakistani neighborhood of Houston shows what it’s like for a new generation to take over an immigrant community.
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Library of Congress The Impoliteness of Talking About Religion
Why are Americans often reluctant to discuss faith outside of their families?
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Brian Frank / Reuters Bernie Heads to the Vatican
The senator from Vermont will speak about creating a “moral economy.”
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Max Rossi / Reuters Pope Francis: Real Families Are Not Theological Abstractions
In a new document, the pontiff argues that Church has often alienated people in non-traditional families.
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Michael Starghill Jr. Cheerleaders for Christ
The women of Kountze, Texas, have been fighting for four years to put Bible verses on their banners. Their case is a look at what's ahead for religious-liberty conflicts in America.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Strange Career of Free Exercise
America is experiencing a revolution in religious-freedom law—transforming the rights of individual conscience into a bulwark of secular wealth and ecclesiastical power.
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Ben Helton Sing, Hug, Jump, Laugh, Pray, and Scream for the Lord
Photographs of the Messiah Miracle Worship Center, a Southern storefront church the size of a two-door garage.
