Kinship ties can be fraught, especially for those born of the transatlantic slave trade. For my ancestors, marriage and parenthood were problematic from the start. The enslaved had no rights that ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats joined faith leaders on Thursday to pray and speak against the ...

Rabbi Danny Schiff had a rule: no national letters.The community scholar of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh ...

In Robert Baird’s debut novel, a religion scholar’s young son starts emitting a holy glow that might or might not ...

I celebrate the milestone of the first woman to become archbishop of Canterbury. But I worry there’s a glass cliff waiting ...

Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer–winning novel speaks unflinchingly of God, grace, sacred luminosity, and humility. This reads a ...

My friend Eric Peterson invited me to write here for the week. This is the study where his father, Eugene, wrote books. I ...

Last Friday, Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating ...

As lawless gangs of ICE agents terrorize city neighborhoods, it’s getting harder to maintain that the United States is ...

Sandra Teresa Soledad Montes Vela, a lay executive council member from the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, announced on Facebook ...

In a Home Depot parking lot beside a freeway on-ramp in this city northeast of Los Angeles, a woman sang to a small crowd in ...