From generation to generation, adults and children have reenacted the story of the birth of Jesus to convey the message of Christmas.

A Christmas pageant, says Calvin College professor of music and worship John Witvliet, is one of the best places in modern culture to witness "a genuine sense of mystery and even solemnity."

When you talk about end-of-life issues, according to Gundersen Lutheran Health System’s director of clinical ethics, “you’re really talking about the meaning of life, about your religious beliefs and faith, and ultimately about who you are.”

"If the criminals have guns then we need to have them," says Pastor Russ Tenhoff of Safe Harbor Ministry in Baltimore. But other religious leaders say they want to prevent guns from getting into the hands of the wrong people.

In the brave new world of social media, says communication professor Stephen O'Leary, church authorities from pastors to the heads of denominations "no longer have the kind of control they once did."

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

The dean of Yale Divinity School reflects on Lent, poverty, public policy debates, and the moral obligations of people of faith.

Pastor Matthew Cork of Yorba Linda Friends Church in California says its ministry includes producing a feature film "that has a cause and a mission behind it."

During decades of war in Sudan, says John Ashworth of Catholic Relief Services, the church was the only institution that stayed on the ground with the people. Now they are voting in the south in a referendum for independence from the Muslim-majority national government in the north.

During the Montgomery bus boycott "it was black Christians teaching white Christians what it meant to be Christian," says a white Lutheran pastor who joined Martin Luther King Jr. and others in a movement to change the world.