Lisa Miller

The sex-abuse crisis in the Catholic Church resulted partly from its male-dominated leadership. And at a time when the Vatican most needs the input of women, the pope is attacking them.

Do the Hindu roots of yoga matter?

They're righteous on immigration.

The Catholic Church has settled hundreds of alleged cases of sexual abuse by priests. But the Vatican—a walled corner of Rome commonly recognized as a sovereign nation—has remained immune from lawsuits.

Nobody seems to care that the new Episcopal bishop of Los Angeles is a lesbian. Don't blame distraction by the Catholics.

In Africa, Catholicism's best growth market, many priests have little use for Rome's chastity mandate.

The cause of the Catholic clergy's sex-abuse scandal is no mystery: insular groups of men often do bad things. So why not break up the all-male club?

Scientists try to explain near-death experiences.

Why Pope Benedict XVI may not be able to heal his church.

It's Easter—that most pleasant of springtime holidays—when children stuff themselves with marshmallows and stain their fingers with pastel dyes. In reality, of course, Easter is about something darker and more fantastic.

Benedict & Co. need to do penance.

The White House panel on faith-based initiatives, a middling and contradictory group, kinda sorta got it right on religion and government.

A new generation gets righteous.

Civility isn't a panacea for our woeful political culture, but at least it could stop the trash talking.

His return to Buddhism could be one more scripted PR stunt. Or, it could be the path to redemption.

The uses and abuses of virtual grief.

Can a secular university embrace religion without sacrificing its soul?

Unlike most spiritual memoirs, Stephanie Saldaña's is very readable. All the more surprising she hasn't yet hit 30.

Tim Tebow's Super Bowl ad for a pro-life point of view isn't that much different from Taco Bell's ad for lunch.

America's evangelicals exiled their leader for insufficient orthodoxy. Now he's back, and he's unrepentant.

Religious centrists bail on Obama.

The frustrating theology of suffering.

The limits of Anglican soulmating.

In the post-apocalyptic world of The Book of Eli, the most precious things on earth are a trial-size bottle of shampoo; a cache of hand wipes, individually wrapped; and the last existing copy of the King James Bible.

Oral Roberts brought Pentecostalism into the mainstream.

Rick Warren does the right thing.

Heaven, according to polls, is a place nearly everyone wants to go to, so why don't movies ever remotely capture that yearning? We all carry inchoate visions of heaven around in our heads, but we don't realize how bruising another's interpretation can be until we see it in celluloid.

It's about more than blood.

The question about Nidal Hasan isn't whether he's a mental-health victim or a terrorist. He has shades of both, so let's not reduce him to a caricature.

The fight over abstinence at Harvard.