Inside parts of Silicon Valley, AI is not just a tool. It is a vision of salvation, extinction and a future beyond the human.

As AI promises to make us faster, smarter and limitless, Pope Leo XIV is making a quieter, stranger case: Our imperfections may be exactly what make us human.

Who gets to tell America’s story?

(RNS) — The wall Baptists built — and are now dismantling.

(RNS) — From symbolic gestures to structural shifts, what carried on — and what looks different now.

Trump called the pope a loser. The pope is from Chicago and isn’t backing down.

What the law allows and what survivors describe don't match.

The network that prepared women to lead the Church of England — before the church was ready.

From crystals to cosmic missions, a new spiritual movement is taking shape online. But as it grows, it’s also colliding with conspiracy culture.

As Trump and Musk push for sweeping cuts to USAID, global humanitarian aid is at risk—along with the religious organizations that help deliver it.

Growing up in the 1990s meant purity rings and Josh Harris books — now the loudest Christian women are countering 'toxic empathy' and shooting dogs.

For 50 years, support for Israel was a central pillar of American Jewish life. That consensus is cracking. Religion reporter Yonat Shimron helps us trace how we got here — and what Oct. 7 changed.

When a dictator was grabbed overnight, the most consequential religious response came from Rome — not America.

Rabbi Steven Burg, CEO of Aish, asks young Jews who they are. The answer worries him.

Bishop Barber says you can't undermine authoritarianism from DC down—it has to come from state-based movements doing micro-organizing at the county level.

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