“South Carolina is really shaping up as a make or break last stand for social conservatives,” says David Gibson of Religion News Service. More →

January 13, 2012

“It seems to me like the church would be the place that would lead the way in having dangerous conversations,” says megachurch pastor Rob Bell, author of the controversial “Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived.” More →

December 2, 2011

“Is there a point at which a change of heart no longer means anything to God?” Watch more of our interview with pastor and author Rob Bell. More →

December 2, 2011

“Nothing Rob Bell has said is new,” says author and columnist Lisa Miller. “There has been this long conversation for twenty-five hundred years about what heaven is and who gets to go.” More →

December 2, 2011

Evangelicals are a key Republican constituency, especially in the primary season, and they still appear to be up for grabs. More →

October 21, 2011

“You’re not tolerant,” says this Christian philosopher, “if you’re indifferent. You’re tolerant if you disapprove of the other person’s religion but put up with it nonetheless.” More →

September 9, 2011

We talk with Cheri Harder, president of the Trinity Forum and a former congressional policy advisor and White House staffer, as Republican presidential campaigns get under way. More →

June 3, 2011

Watch more of our conversation with Cherie Harder about religion and politics in 2012. More →

June 3, 2011

During decades of civil war in Sudan, says John Ashworth of Catholic Relief Services, the church was the only institution on the ground with the people, and because of that it gained huge moral authority. Now South Sudan is voting in a referendum for independence from the Muslim-majority national government in Khartoum. More →

January 14, 2011

The Republican Party made significant gains with Catholic voters as well as white Protestants. Did the Democrats give up on religious outreach? More →

November 5, 2010