It’s the best of the Godbeat, 2025 version. Many of the nation’s top religion journalists pick their top piece of the year.

Oregon was the first state to approve physician-assisted suicide in 1997. In addition to Washington D.C. and Illinois, the practice is legal for adults in California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine ...

When a shell slammed into an Islamic school housing over 1,200 children, its caretaker didn’t dial the army or the police. He ...

Al Mohler believed a former seminary student when she told him in 2018 that a professor forced her to perform sexual acts. The president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, ...

Hong Kong was tense and festive when I arrived for a small 1997 conference about religion coverage in global media. The reason for the odd atmosphere was obvious: In a few days, on July 1, Great ...

Employees at large retail chains were instructed to avoid “Merry Christmas,” a greeting now deemed too specific and too religious. What emerged was designed to include everyone by addressing no one, ...

The most magical and mystical parts of the Christmas story reinforce the unique and elevated status of Jesus of Nazareth. When we read about the angels, the magi, the virgin birth, etc., we understand ...

In a move that underscores the priorities of the Catholic Church in the U.S., Pope Leo XIV replaced Cardinal Timothy Dolan as Archbishop of New York, appointing Bishop Ronald Hicks to lead the ...

This light was especially symbolic at Christmas, when settlers in frontier Appalachia — many of them Scot-Irish — faced hard ...

Let us strive to spend more time caring for others in the truest sense and less time feeding the devil’s divisiveness, ...

Nigerian Christian leaders verified that Christians there are persecuted for their faith, refuting a growing international ...

The story of Oak Flat in Arizona reveals what happens when the government refuses to see land as essential to the religious life of a people. Yet, there are communities choosing a different way. One ...