As the world celebrates the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, is its voice receding in American culture?

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.”

Watch more about the history surrounding the 1611 publication of the King James Version of the Bible.

"There's a lot of pressure we put on ourselves as clergy because of what we're doing, and we don't want to let God down," says Rev. Lynda Ferguson, a Methodist pastor in rural North Carolina.

A journalist who has written extensively on the biblical and spiritual preoccupations of directors Joel and Ethan Coen says in "True Grit" they treat the Presbyterian moral code of fourteen-year-old narrator-heroine Mattie Ross with tenderness and empathy.

Look back at excerpts from our conversations with reporters over the past 10 years on religion and its changing role in the world.

Religion and politics, interfaith relations, humanitarian disasters, war and peace. Watch the members of our annual reporters roundtable assess the most important religion and ethics news of the past year.

"The fear people have is that if my child is raised in the other parent’s religion, then the child will grow closer to the other parent," says one interfaith family mediator.

Some have said the nomination of Elena Kagan marks the passing of American Protestantism. Others celebrate it as a measure of how far the country has come.

On April 8, the US and Russia meet in Prague to sign a new arms control agreement. For 65 years, churches and religious groups have been involved in public conversations about the morality of nuclear weapons.