Your life is not a series of random events. Your family background, education, and life experiences—even the most painful ones—all equip you to do some work that no one else can do.

We cannot create spiritual renewal by ourselves, but we can “prepare the altar” and ask God to send his Holy Spirit to change our hearts, our churches, and our communities.

God comes near through his Word, and he comes close through his creation. If we don’t know and see this, we will miss so much of who he is and how he longs to be with us.

Scorsese doesn’t need to defend his faith or burnish religion’s image. His movies are steeped in Catholic sensibilities but embrace painful questions that can accompany belief.

The Pour Over—a faith-based, thrice-weekly email newsletter—identifies top news stories from the mainstream press and offers a biblical perspective.

I've struggled with worship. For much of my life, it was the part of any church service when my mind was most apt to wander. But then, finally, some friends taught me how to worship.

How do we make decisions that are good for ourselves and for our communities when misinformation pervades the news and information we consume?

Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, one of Europe’s best, quit Norway’s official Lutheran Church as a teen but returned to faith while struggling with alcoholism.

Seth Kaplan, researcher at Johns Hopkins who studies fragile states around the world, argues that rebuilding social capital—including faith congregations—can address social problems.

Faith-based films like “I Can Only Imagine,” “Jesus Revolution,” and “Sound of Freedom” compete at the box office with mainstream movies. Movie critic Joseph Holmes explores why.

In a culture riven by crises of miscommunication, we suffer unnecessarily in our families and even in our body politic. Maybe it’s always been this way. But it certainly seems worse today.

Pascal was among the first to grapple with the implications of modern science on faith, and his scientific sophistication didn’t keep him from being a devout Christian.

Jacob Lupfer believes the distance between psychoanalysis and faith is needlessly wide. Religious leaders and psychoanalytic practitioners, he says, should take a step toward each other.

For many, the relationship between birds and Christianity does not stray further than the dove and olive branch on a banner at church. However, for Christian birdwatchers, the link is alive.

Why do we work? Over the last 20 years, there have been many good books on how faith and work connect. But do they get to the root of why human beings work?

Known for his exquisite writing and insightful commentary, McCarthy’s two new and unexpected novels—"The Passenger" and "Stella Maris”—prove to be his most religious yet.

Christian Pinkston, whose firm represents 'He Gets Us,’ makes the case that our habit of attacking ‘our own’ on peripheral topics—especially in public—is obstructive to the spread of the gospel.

When music encounters religion, the art can be transformed and may reveal God in astonishing beauty—like the earliest Gregorian chants through Bach and Mozart.

Paul Prather, rural Pentecostal pastor/journalist explains how Richard Rohr’s bestselling book, Falling Upward, maded sense of a big transformation going on in his heart.

N.T. Wright helped pastor and journalist Paul Prather answer this most vital of questions: What if Heaven isn’t a place beyond the stars but a Kingdom already here, now?