Lisa Miller

Though Saddleback's pastor, Rick Warren, helped draft the document and was rumored to be among the signers, he is not.

Some women became possessed by the Holy Spirit, keening as their sisters encircled them, cooling them with paper fans.

The Rev. Wright shows he's no politician.

The site 'has never been limited to a Christian audience or to any subset,' says a company lawyer.

Benedict has done little to appeal to an American flock that is in need of a serious spiritual catharsis.

Last spring, NEWSWEEK published a list of the 50 most influential rabbis in America, created and compiled by three nice (and rich and powerful) Jewish media big shots who, it seemed, didn't have quite enough to do.

Adam Hamilton does not call himself "pro-choice." He prefers "pro-life with a heavy heart." What that means, as he explains in his new book "Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White," is that he believes abortion should be available and legal, that there are instances in which it might be necessary and that those instances should be very rare.

There are more than 50,000 copies of 'Experiencing God, Day by Day' with the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Barack Obama's church is under scrutiny. But what's it really like on the inside?

Does being religious actually help you get pregnant? It's possible, says a fertility specialist.

I tried to watch John McCain as he made his victory speech last week, but really, I couldn't take my eyes off his wife. So thin, so blond, so beautiful in her swept-up hairdo—my husband, slouched on the couch next to me, muttered something along the lines of, "She is not ugly." I had to agree.

When he climbs into his pulpit on Sundays, Bowen shouts 'God is good!' and the people shout back, in unison, 'All the time!'

Recent popular books by atheist authors have spawned a new generation of Christian apologists. The latest rebuttal is "The Faith: What Christians Believe, Why They Believe It and Why It Matters," by Chuck Colson, the convicted Watergate felon turned prison reformer.

'It's red meat for pundits,' concedes Harvard chaplain Greg Epstein, who prefers the word 'humanist.'

A New York pastor who says he thinks too much wants to bring his Christian message to the world.

Voters never felt sure of his core beliefs.

On eBay last week, you could buy strands of hair from the head of Saint Thérèse. Bids started at $40.

Scientologists don't believe a newborn is the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard: 'Never, never, never.'

In 1922, Harvard announced a simple way to reduce anti-Semitism on campus: admit fewer Jews.

More-modest voices are reclaiming the debate over faith from the bomb throwers.

Forget Evian or Vitaminwater. The latest beverage trend: 'Holy Water.'

Megachurch pastor Rick Warren on the 2008 campaign.

Rudy Giuliani has a Catholic problem and it's not, strangely enough, that he was raised as a Roman Catholic, considered becoming a priest, then dumped his second of three wives on television and has been photographed in a dress.

Just 40% of Americans go to church weekly, but 70% want a president with strong religious faith.

Discussing his new book, the Harvard minister calls for modesty in religious debate and decries the domestication of the Christian God.

Nobody is perfect, least of all Ann Coulter—and I'm not going to worry about what she thinks about me.

He is the nicest right-wing evangelical powerhouse you've never heard of. Jim Daly grew up the last of five children in what anyone would call a broken home.

It isn't every day that a Christian book--that is, a book written by a Christian author for a Christian audience and marketed by a Christian publisher--crosses over into the secular market and makes any kind of appearance on best-seller lists or gets noticed by the mainstream press.

The ancient Jews did it. So did the Romans and the Aztecs. Sacrificing an animal to please or placate God or the gods has been commonplace for many thousands of years.

Some stories are best told straight. On Sept. 8, Kathy Griffin, a bawdy, foulmouthed comedian, accepted an Emmy Award for her reality show, "My Life on the D-List," and in her acceptance speech she explained that while other actors might thank Jesus for such an honor, she wouldn't consider it. "Suck it, Jesus," she exuberantly added, waving her statuette in the air. "This award is my God, now."Outrage from Christian groups predictably followed, led (also predictably) by William Donohue of the...