“It’s an opportunity for us to not just think about the bottom line, which is important. But there are other things that are as important," says Suzanne McDowell, co-CEO of King Arthur Flour Company. "The environment, our society, community, all of our shareholders—not just the bottom line.”

"Corporations are going to have to live up to a new standard if they are going to be able to hold on to the freedom of free enterprise, and the B Corp might be the way for that to happen," says this emeritus professor of business ethics and corporate responsibility.

"The Blind Boys is a group that's not blind, they just can't see and that means they might have lost their sight, but they never lost their direction."

American Muslims are not going to let their faith be defined by ISIS, says Hoda Elshishtawy, national policy analyst for the Muslim Public Affairs Council. “Islam is about life, human rights, dignity, justice. Muslims are taking back that narrative.”

Cows are considered sacred by Hindus in India. They were the favorite animal of Lord Krishna, and they serve as a symbol of wealth, strength, and abundance. But people who want to protect these creatures must also deal with those who think cows are little more than a nuisance.

"We are confident that someday this school will reopen, and we have to prepare ourselves for that day," says Metropolitan Elpidophoros, the abbot of Halki. He has reestablished a monastery at the site of the distinguished Eastern Orthodox seminary closed by the Turkish government for 43 years.

"I don’t see how you can have a relationship with God that doesn’t involve a state of receptivity—and a receptivity to lots of stuff, because God does show up in all kinds of odd ways."

Church leaders are building bridges among divided communities in the wake of violent protests and lingering tensions.

As the movie opens today (January 9) in theaters around the country amidst controversy over its portrayal of former president Lyndon Johnson, we speak with director Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo, the actor who portrays Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., about what it means to them to tell the story of ...

How do interfaith couples decide which faith their children should adopt? "We both wanted to keep our own religions and our own identity for ourselves, so we knew from the beginning that we didn’t want our children to be just one of our faiths," says Amy Schombs, who is Jewish and whose husband is ...

The new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, set to be rebuilt at the World Trade Center, will be a national shrine and will include a nondenominational bereavement center. "Next to the place where the most tragic thing that has ever happened on American soil," says Father Evagoras Constantinides of ...

We set the stage for the October 5 opening of the Vatican’s two-week discussion and debate, called by Pope Francis, on the church and the pastoral challenges of contemporary family life, including topics such as marriage, divorce, remarriage, annulments, and cohabitation.

"There are several prominent pulpits in which women are now coming into those jobs, and it's an indication society is shifting in many different ways," says the Reverend Amy Butler, first female senior pastor of the Riverside Church in Manhattan. "Women are increasingly moving into leadership roles ...

"We are at the point in institutional church where we don't know what the future is going to look like. I hope at the Riverside Church we can create a community of people who allow for innovation and for exploration."

"The three pulpits that are historically important in mainline Protestantism have women senior pastors now is a very big deal," observes scholar and author Diana Butler Bass. "It is hard to imagine as recently as even 20 years ago that women would have achieved that level of leadership. It signals ...

"Jesus matters so much because of the incarnation," says Edward Blum, a history professor at San Diego State University and co-author of "The Color of Christ." "If God takes a particular body with particular hair length and particular eye color, then perhaps that says something about the value of ...

Chris "Comes with Clouds" White, of Cherokee descent, discovered a pre-historic stone circle near his home that carries a significant spiritual meaning for him. "We’re born, we have a youth, we get old, we die, but we believe that there’s something beyond that where our ancestors are, so ...

"Jesus matters so much because of the incarnation," says Edward Blum, a history professor at San Diego State University and co-author of The Color of Christ. "So if God takes a particular body with particular hair length and particular eye color, then perhaps that says something about the value of ...

"There’s a fear among large segments of the Buddhist population in Myanmar," says Matthew Smith, executive director of Fortify Rights, an independent organization to protect and defend human rights, "that the country is at risk of being taken over by Muslims. It’s a very unreasonable, irrational ...

As thousands of unaccompanied migrant children cross the US-Mexico border, Americans are being challenged by how to respond. "This is what our Catholic faith calls us to do," says John Andrews of the Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino County. But in Murrieta, California, Andrea Rockwood has a ...