Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the "shadow history" of doubt out of the corner of her eye.

A great public theologian and historian, Martin Marty offers personal and historical perspective on religion in modern life — including the nature of fundamentalism, and the decline of America's mainline Protestant majority as Evangelical Christianity gains in influence.

American Public Media's Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio's weekly conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas.

Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent.

We delve into the world and meaning of the Jewish High Holy Days — ten days that span the new year of Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur's rituals of atonement.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose life spanned the rise and fall of Hitler's Germany, offers us a model of personal morality and conscience in the most troubled and immoral of times.

The greatest threat in the post-Cold War world, says Douglas Johnston, is the prospective marriage of religious extremism with weapons of mass destruction.

A survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lost most of his family, Wiesel is a seminal chronicler of that event and its meaning.

Avivah Zornberg is one of the great, creative interpreters of Talmud and Torah in the contemporary world.

Experts once predicted that as the world grew more modern, religion would decline.

Jimmy Carter — former president and Nobel Laureate, author and global humanitarian — speaks of his born-again faith with a directness that is striking even in today's political culture.

Theologian Vigen Guroian experiences Easter as "a call to our senses.

Is there such a thing as the Muslim world?

Present-day relevance of 20th century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, an influential, boundary-crossing voice in American public life.

An environmentalist who pursued the ecological impulse of Paganism, from its ancient roots to its modern revival in Europe and North America, discusses his observations about the spirit of Paganism and its influence on everyday Western culture — and even on old-time religion.

The birth of the Pentecostal movement began 100 years ago on Azusa Street in Los Angeles.

In the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, scrutiny of the religion of Islam has become part and parcel of our public life.

Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another?

The word "Vodou" evokes images of sorcery and sticking pins into dolls.

A 30-year-old, Indian-American Muslim and former Rhodes Scholar is setting out to change the way young people relate to their own religious traditions and those of others.

Philosopher Jacob Needleman speaks on the spiritual and moral ideals of the American founders — and how these ideals resonate in our culture today.

When our technology can produce possibilities that can both fascinate and repulse us?

The spiritual is celebrated in American culture and beyond.

The sacred story of Abraham traverses the geography of the most bitter political conflict in the modern world — beginning in what is now southern Iraq and ending in the West Bank city of Hebron.

The 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet Rumi has long shaped Muslims around the world and has now become popular in the West.