A Former President, A Person Of Faith
Jimmy Carter weighs in on prayer, peace and what it means to be presidential.
Religion
Christian Colleges Are Tangled In Their Own LGBT Policies
Conservative Christian colleges worry their official positions on LGBT issues could run afoul of sex discrimination law and harm relations with their own students.
Sister Jean, Breakout March Madness Star, Celebrated By Her Fellow Nuns
"There's our girl!" says Sister Peggy Geraghty as the camera pans to Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, the 98-year-old Loyola-Chicago men's basketball team chaplain.
Religion, Libertarian Cults And The American West In 'Wild Wild Country'
Directors Chapman and Maclain Way explore the Rajneeshees — a cult behind the largest U.S. act of bioterrorism — in their new Netflix documentary mini-series, Wild Wild Country.
Another Effort To Get Rid Of The 'Johnson Amendment' Fails
Conservatives wanted the Omnibus Spending Bill to repeal a provision in tax law that bars churches and other nonprofits from engaging in partisan political campaigns, but they lacked the votes.
A Chaplain Talks March Madness
NPR's Noel King talks to Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, the 98-year-old chaplain of the Loyola University Chicago men's basketball team.
Author Traces Christianity's Path From 'Forbidden Religion' To A 'Triumph'
Religion scholar Bart Ehrman says that the early spread of Christianity transformed the entire history of the West — for better or worse. His new book is The Triumph Of Christianity.
Mosque Bombing Plot Rattles Immigrants In Kansas' 'Meat Triangle'
Militia members accused of plotting to bomb a mosque and apartment complex in southwest Kansas go on trial Tuesday. The alleged plot laid bare tiny pockets of potentially violent racism in the region.
Attacked By Alt-Right Trolls, A Jewish Journalist Links Trump To The Rise Of Hate
Trump "has made nationalist policy into the policy of the executive branch," says New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman. His new book, (((Semitism))), is about being Jewish in the Trump era.
Salvadoran Evangelicals Work To Change Lives Of Gang Members
El Salvador has one of the highest murder rates in the world, driven by gangs. The Economist's Sarah Esther Maslin reported on how evangelical churches help gang members pull away from lives of crime.