Actress Vera Farmiga plays a woman who is “wrestling with the Lord and refusing to let him go until she understands and until he blesses her,” says writer and author Frederica Mathewes-Green.

As Congress debates the budget, religious conservatives say the debt is a moral issue, and an interfaith coalition has launched a campaign to reduce military spending and prevent cuts for the poor.

A progressive evangelical says how you cut the federal deficit is a moral question.

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The Republican victories this week were also a victory for the Christian right, says University of West Georgia history professor Daniel K. Williams.

A senior researcher at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life says atheists, agnostics, Jews, and Mormons stand out for their knowledge of world religions other than Christianity, while Mormons and evangelical Protestants do best on questions about the Bible and Christianity.

A quadriplegic who has spent more than 40 years in a wheel chair says living with suffering teaches you who you are.

Singing, drawing, and painting are unique forms of self-expression for this evangelical speaker and writer and also a means of encouraging others with disabilities.

A Christian leader in Indonesia says a Florida church’s plans to burn Qurans on 9/11 could endanger Christian minorities in predominantly Muslim countries.