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Former Christian rocker Stephen Mason’s life has been shaped by guitars, barber shears and the Bible

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

Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated in many Catholic parishes across Southern California

For as long as LGBTQ folks have gathered in bars and nightclubs, such spaces have hosted weddings, birthed churches and been called “heavenly.”

India’s Supreme Court officially recognized transgender Indians as a third gender, separate from males and females in 2014, declaring that all persons have the constitutional right to self-identify regarding gender

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

In Branson, Missouri, the holy trinity of faith, flag and family reign supreme

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