Starting in the 1880s, two groups rushed into the central Appalachian Mountains: Industrialists seeking coal, and missionaries seeking moral reform. Both changed the region forever, and their stories ...

The estate of A.M. Burton has reached a settlement agreement with the Nashville Church of Christ after years of dispute over the downtown Nashville, Tenn., church building formerly known as the ...

I can’t imagine I will ever teach a course on Research Methods again, but it’s something that I actually really did enjoy at EIU. I led our incoming graduate students on a tour of how political ...

Next year, a new feature-length presentation of the Crucifixion will hit the big screen. It’ll mark the culmination of the ...

The Serbian Orthodox Church, which represents 85 percent of this Baltic country’s population, has been largely urged the ...

In a world where sports and spirituality don’t often intersect, Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt stood as a remarkable exception.

The ongoing federal government shutdown furloughed 57 members of The Commonwealth of Faith Church in Michigan, where a third ...

Weiss (a liberal Jew who is married to another woman) has demonstrated a strong belief that real religious believers, acting on real religious beliefs, can shape real news events in the real world.

Interest in communicating with the dead has continued to thread itself through contemporary American life. For a medium in ...

The question is whether Vatican leaders can build unity between bishops who back Pride Masses and those who approve Latin ...

Nearly 200 Tibetan Buddhist nuns from religious institutions across India and Nepal — a record number — gathered recently at ...

In the early 2000s, women were more regular churchgoers than men, and according to researchers, it is unclear whether this new shift “is a story of women stepping back or men stepping up.” ...