While many stories show queer people leaving their unaccepting faith communities to maintain their safety, dignity, and mental health, we’ve found a handful of LGBTQ+ films about religion that depict ...

How to Make a Christian Superstar” promises to exorcise fans’ curiosity about the sacrifices faith-focused artists made in ...

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Bethany Joy Lenz spent a decade inside what she now calls a cult, and the woman who emerged didn’t just walk back to Jesus — ...

Few islanders still observe Lent, but they cling to a tradition once seen as defying the all-powerful Roman Catholic Church. Jig dancers taking part in an annual masked celebration in ...

Tim Scaife doesn’t even like fish. Yet every Lenten season for the past 14 years, he has overseen a six-night series of Friday fish fries for his church in Kittanning, Pennsylvania. With 30 people in ...

Easter is nearly here. While that may mean candy and Easter bunnies for most, it means something entirely different in the Catholic church. For faithful observers, the spring season is marked by Lent, ...

When Stephen Adubato compares minimal Catholic and Orthodox abstinence to the obligatory daytime fasting of Muslim Ramadan in “What I Learned About Islam During Lent” (Houses of Worship, March 20), he ...

We are on day 27 of the 40-day lenten season 2026. Here's what to know about eating eggs, what day lent ends, Holy Week, Good Friday, Easter Sunday and other dates to know. Unlike other annual ...

Passover is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the Israelites' emancipation from slavery in ancient Egypt. In 2026, Passover will begin before sundown on Wednesday, April 1, and end after ...

The entire purpose of Lent, now past the halfway mark, is to prepare us for the glory of Easter and its revelation of the destiny that God first intended for humanity “in the beginning” (Genesis 1:1): ...

We are nearly two weeks into the 40-day season of lent, with over four weeks left to go. Here's when and what to know about the end of lent 2026, Good Friday, Easter Sunday and other dates to know.