Perhaps it's no surprise that Mary Catherine Hilkert, a Catholic theologian, a professor at Notre Dame and a Dominican Sister of Peace, believes that people can find love, mercy and union with God ...

They say death is the only thing guaranteed in this life. It is the one common denominator between us all. It’s also quite possibly the only thing about the human experience that is unknown to us. No ...

Men who can write readable books about religion are almost as rare as saints. One such rarity is the Oxford don, Clive Staples Lewis. In The Screwtape Letters (TIME, April 19, 1943) Author Lewis gave ...

When we think of hell, I find alienation and separation useful descriptors, with hell being a state of alienation from ...

Some describe religions as only superficially similar, but fundamentally incompatible. Different religions have their unique way of diagnosing human issues and suggesting contrasting remedies. Many ...

Just 59% of 18- to 34-year-olds in the U.S. say they believe in God, a prime factor in the decline of overall belief in God from 90% in 2001 to 74% in May, a Gallup poll shows. Overall belief in God, ...