"Religion isn’t bad, but until religion becomes actual spiritual experience, it is just religion," says this sometimes controversial Franciscan priest and author.

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

Actor Martin Sheen says walking the Camino de Santiago is “a journey of the spirit as well as the flesh” and a search for ritual as well as transcendence.

College and university students recall 9/11 and reflect on how it affected their spiritual lives.

Working with the Circle of Life Children’s Center, a pediatrician at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey offers palliative care and pain management to seriously ill children and their families.

To mark his 70th birthday on May 24, we reprise an essay on religion, spirituality, and Bob Dylan, who once said, “There’s mystery, magic, truth, and the Bible in great folk music. I can’t hope to touch that. But I’m going to try.”

Reformation historian, award-winning memoirist, and Cuban émigré Carlos Eire says reading the medieval devotional book "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas à Kempis was, for him, "a conversion experience."

"It's our job as civilians to tend to the returning warriors by bringing them into the center of the community," says this psychotherapist and author of "War and the Soul."

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.

"That old singing, that old praying which I love so much—that is the great strength of my being, of my writing," says the author of "A Lesson Before Dying" and many other critically acclaimed books.