Sundays at Hillsong, the church that saved Justin Bieber.

If you wanted a divorce in the late 1800s, you had to move to South Dakota. Even if you were the niece of John Jacob Astor III.

Websites and apps are designed for compulsion, even addiction. So why aren’t they regulated like drugs or casinos?

They were cousins who grow up in Raqqa amidst parties, beaches, even bikinis. They married ISIS fighters to protect their families, then became morality policers.

The story of Jeffrey Fowle, an Ohio man who tried to smuggle a Bible into North Korea.

How a tattooed video store clerk with a history of drinking and drug use ended up at an Islamic self-help class leading to the birth of ISIS.

In 1966, Anton LaVey introduced the world to the Church of Satan. The 1980s saw a “Satanic Panic” in the form of abuse charges brought against child-care workers and suburban parents. Today, the author joins a group of Satanists for afternoon tea at the church’s global headquarters in a “bland New York college town.”

Finding a saint in a leprosy settlement in Hawaii.

On America, Christianity, and “ignorance, intolerance, and belligerent nationalism.”

Afghans have long visited falbin to have their futures foretold. Fundamentalist Muslim clerics hope to stop that.

How a former member of Jesus People USA exposed its history of sexual abuse.

The Pope’s vision for addressing climate change.

The stories of four women whose children joined the Islamic State.

The future of India’s “good minority,” the Parsis.

The life of Reverend Clementa Pinckney, killed in Charleston.

On the kids who are spiritual leaders before the age of ten.

A tornado causes physical and psychological turmoil in a religious community.

After a member of the Church of Wells abruptly left the group (which may or may not be a cult), many held out hope. A week later she went back, and the church’s elders are eager to explain why.

Previously: Sinners in the Hands

Decades after a young nun was murdered, a group of former Catholic high school students begin to suspect that an abusive priest may have been the culprit.

The rise of the Peoples Temple through the lens of an earlier group: Father Divine’s Peace Mission.

Harry Shaughnessy was a suburban dad and a lifelong Catholic. Then he and his family gave up on God.

One man’s story.

Squeamish though they might be about God, even the totally irreligious can find some comfort in praying.

The love story behind the battle over gay marriage in Texas.

A newfound faith wreaks havoc on a relationship.