TIME’s 1966 cover story—which provocatively asked “Is God Dead?”—was and remains an ethnocentric proposition with Liberal-Protestant-Christian-Western premises about history and theology. The story of ...

It’s not hard to see the divinity behind the water temples that dot the rice terraces of Bali. It’s there in the white-clad high priest presiding in the temple at the summit of a dormant volcano. It’s ...

When I read that songwriter Michael Gungor told his wife, Lisa, “I don’t believe in God anymore,” I experienced a familiar feeling in the pit of my stomach. It was the same one I’d had a couple of ...

My brother is one of the hardest-working, most generous people I know. During the rare moments when he is not working successfully at his job or volunteering his time to mentor youth, however, he can ...

There are some flashbacks to the death of Willy Lincoln, in the White House, but most of George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo is set in Georgetown’s Oak Hill Cemetery. That is because most all of ...

Previous Pew Research Center studies have shown that the share of Americans who believe in God with absolute certainty has declined in recent years, while the share saying they have doubts about God’s ...

Researchers are unearthing the roots of religious feeling in the neural commotion that accompanies the spiritual epiphanies of nuns, Buddhists and other people of faith The doughnut-shaped machine ...

Country star Randy Houser feels “In God’s Time,” his latest single, came to him by divine inspiration. Below, Houser shares the story of how he came to write the powerful and timely track: I had the ...