A new performance is is loosely inspired by the real-life friendship of a Polish Jew named Yehuda Nir, who survived concentration camps, and Gottfried Wagner, a German descendent of composer Richard Wagner who became very critical of his family’s involvement with the Nazis.
The endeavor speaks to an increasingly secular society still hungry for wonder and community.
Washington got a taste of the closest thing liberal Christianity has to a star when weightlifter-comic-pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber came to town Tuesday night.
Nadia Bolz-Weber, a tattooed, weight-lifting onetime comic, explains her new vision for liberal believers.
Flower-power activist installs protest art in Dupont Metro, prompting debate about power and beauty.
Adas Israel synagogue creates a room with coffee and WiFi for the group reading of ancient texts.
Some traditionalists concerned that his all-embracing style runs counter to clear, defined teachings
Thousands of laid-off federal workers face the same uneasy question: Now what?
In talk with atheist Italian journalist, pontiff calls efforts to convert people to Christianity “solemn nonsense.”
Are the findings evidence of more acceptance, or do they portend the fading of all but Orthodox Jewish life?
Pope Francis has set the date for making saints of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII as April 27.
An increasing number identify themselves as evangelical or unaffiliated, the Public Religion Research Institute found.
The canonizations of popes John XXIII and John Paul II will likely be a massive event around Easter 2014.
Faith and Action installed the Ten Commandments statue on its lawn near the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006.
The cardinals who picked the pope wanted a pastor and communicator. Is this what they had in mind?
In an interview, the pope says he embraces traditional teachings but he’s “not a right-winger.”
People on the scene remember hearing the terror and running for safety.
The gentrifying area south of the Capitol was once associated with crime and empty lots.
On Yom Kippur, some Jews will be staring at screens in synagogues while others will remain tech-free
Members try to observe their faith while following intense debate over Syria.
Michelle’s path to her dream job as religion reporter began as a kid, trying to make sense of a kosher Jewish home that had three sets of dishes: meat, milk and Chinese food. Her career included a decade of globe-trotting with The Associated Press, covering everything from domestic terrorism in the Arizona desert to debates on male circumcision to Ugandan royalty and how strapped doctors in Afghanistan decide who lives and who dies.
Since January 2006 she’s been the Post’s religion reporter, where she reports on the busy marketplace of American religion. She has a Master’s (in Near Eastern Studies), a husband, a son and just two sets of dishes. The Religion Newswriters Association awarded her its “Religion Reporter of the Year” award for religion writing in large news organizations in 2011 and 2013.