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Clint Pressley, 55, the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, is a hard-working pastor of North Carolina’s fifth-largest Baptist church with two large campuses in suburban Charlotte

In the heart of Soho’s fashion district, a new kind of Hindu temple is drawing in spiritually curious New Yorkers — everyone from TikTok-loving Gen Zers to celebrities like Willem Dafoe and Deepak Chopra

As East Palestine residents continue to experience wide-ranging symptoms in the wake of the February derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals, a research team from the University of Kentucky is launching the first study assessing biological samples for chemical exposure in East Palestine

Rocky Malloy, a self-described former drug-smuggling pirate saved by divine intervention, has led a group that promotes chaplains as a tool to proselytize to schoolchildren.

Carl Lentz, the ousted pastor of Hillsong New York City, has landed on staff at Transformation Church

White sage, which is sacred to a number of Native American tribes in the southwest United States, has been adopted by both some contemporary Pagans and New Age practitioners for purification rites. As Emily McFarlan Miller reported in a recent Religion News Service article, this is resulting in overharvesting and…

In churches, synagogues and mosques across the United States, religious teaching and texts are often cited in disapproving of LGBTQ people

Some ‘think Christian beliefs, values and morality ought to be reflected in US laws and policies,’ researcher says

Pewaukee, Wisconsin, a village of 15,000 in Milwaukee’s far-west suburbs, is home to four Dharmic temples, an anomaly in a state rarely recognized for its South Asian immigrant population

For more than a century, Grace Evangelical Covenant Church on Chicago’s North Side proved resilient, ready to adapt to the many changes that came its way

Over the years, the Monastery of the Angels community has been dwindling as the nuns age and after some died from COVID-19 and other causes, making it difficult to sustain the monastery’s “democratic way of life.”