Advance directives respect familial relationships, spiritual values, and individual choices, says the president of the National Association of Evangelicals.

“It’s an expression of the love for our Torah, our teachings. It’s also a great way to begin the New Year,” says Rabbi Ravid Shnever, spiritual leader of Kehila Chadasha and the Am Kolel Jewish Renewal Center of Greater Washington.

It was the Bible of the speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., says author Jon Sweeney. “It’s the basis of cultural identity in the United States more than any other book.”

An interfaith coalition is launching a prayer and fasting campaign to protect federal funding for programs that help the poor.

On Purim, says Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, the more you can poke fun at the gravitas of life, the better.

On Dec. 14 religious leaders held a prayer summit and Jericho March on Capitol Hill to urge senators to vote for a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country by their parents and who go on to attend college or serve in the military.

Watch more of producer Susan Goldstein's interview with writer Pamela Greenberg, whose new translation of the Book of Psalms is being praised for its literary beauty.

How have religion in general and the King James Bible in particular figured in America's literary history?

Watch some of the religious leaders who were at the March 21 interfaith prayer service for immigration reform on the National Mall.

Read more of Bob Abernethy's interview with novelist Marilynne Robinson.