How morality and geography crystalize in Arkansas.

Inside the political battle over reproductive rights in Texas a decade ago.

“What people need to know is we’re not protesting churches. We’re protesting this church.”

A trip to India for total silence.

An exchange on faith and politics in America.

A year of reporting reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse.

On the meaning of an ancient practice: collecting seashells.

Public-health officials are confronting dangerous ideas as much as a deadly disease.

Sexual and personal growth intertwine.

Bruce Wisan received one of the toughest assignments ever thrust upon an accountant: to take control of the assets (and by proxy, followers) of the polygamist Mormon breakaway sect, F.L.D.S., after their prophet, Warren Jeffs, went on the lam and their compound was raided.

A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.

While visiting a new church, a teenager questions her faith.

Expected and unexpected salvation.

Lost love and a robbery.

Two sisters; a grotesque religious ritual.

Observations from an AA meeting.

During the 90s, David Bazan was Christian indie-rock’s first big crossover star. Then he stopped believing.

Ricky Rodriguez was born in the role of the messiah. His father was David Berg, the leader of the polygamous/incestuous cult The Children of God, which published a book documenting his early life:

In 1982 a shop in Spain printed several thousand copies of a book that was then distributed to group members around the world. Bound in faux leather, illustrated with hundreds of photographs, the 762-page tome meticulously chronicled Ricky's young life and was intended as a child-rearing manual for families. Its title, The Story of Davidito, was stamped in gold. With its combination of earnest prose and unabashed child pornography, it is perhaps the most disturbing book ever published in the name of religion.

Eventually, he left the cult and found work as an electrician. But revenge called him back.

In the ’50s and ’60s, the Reverend Will Campbell marched with MLK Jr. and worked to desegregate the University of Mississippi. Later, broke, he took a job as Waylon Jennings’ roadie and occasional spiritual guru. Afterward, his ministry grew even stranger and more itinerant.

A profile of Rev. William Barber II, who gave one of the most memorable speeches at last summer’s Democratic National Convention and is now leading the Christian protest against the White House.

Young people who leave strict Jewish communities face a bewildering, lonely new world. One group helps them navigate it.

The rise and fall and rise again of a crooked televangelist.

Secular crises of two workers at a religious camp.

Decades after the body of beauty queen Irene Garza was pulled from an irrigation canal, there is still only one suspect: John Feit, the priest who heard her final confession.

To understand Cam Newton, you need to go to a small church 45 minutes outside of Atlanta called Holy Zion Center of Deliverance and hear his dad preach.