An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral reveals the chaos and genius of his mind.

In late 2018, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community was mourning the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Then a stranger and his family landed in their midst.

Church-loving surf instructor Matthew Taylor Coleman fell into online conspiracy theories, then allegedly admitted to killing his kids to save the world. How did no one see it coming?

The Christian organization Teen Challenge, made up of more than a thousand centers, claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse?

At Moody Bible Institute, purity culture and complementarianism have worked together to forgive abusers and punish the abused.

Quasi-religious group Love Has Won claimed to offer wellness advice and self-care products, but what was actually being dished out by their late leader Amy Carlson Stroud—self-professed “Mother God”—was much darker.

Joe Biden’s very public clash with his own church.

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

Today, artificial intelligence and information technologies have absorbed many of the questions that were once taken up by theologians and philosophers: the mind’s relationship to the body, the question of free will, the possibility of immortality.

When word spreads about a 17-year-old in rural Tuscany reputed to have clairvoyant powers, she must withstand followers seeking her wisdom and officials hellbent on tearing her down.

Sarah Green escaped her mother’s cult 22 years ago. She still thinks about those she left behind.

When a cheating scandal blew up the pastor’s life, some Hillsong congregants were left to question their relationship with a church that cultivated its own kind of fame—and the double standards that often came with it.

As the New York head of a celebrity-favorite megachurch, Carl Lentz achieved stardom. But when a cheating scandal blew up the pastor’s life, congregants were left to question their relationship with a church that cultivated its own kind of fame.

How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis. What will the third century of the faith look like?

The irreconcilable differences between Orthodoxy and secularism increasingly end up in court.

For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk.

A visit to the Christian rock Cross-Over Festival in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.

The last living Shakers—just two by some counts—keep their centuries-old faith in a village in Maine.

How UFO culture took over America.

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

“A legend is growing in Nepal, where people say a meditating boy hasn’t eaten or drunk in seven months. He barely moves, just sits under a tree, still as a stone. It’s impossible, some say. Is it a miracle? A hoax? Let’s find out.”

A mysterious outbreak. Hundreds of stricken schoolgirls. Was it an illness, or was something darker to blame?

A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.