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July 20th, 2011
Hare Krishna old-timers keep the faith
Kusha Devidasi gaped in horror as her cat moved in for another kill. A vegetarian, Devidasi had tried everything to get him to stop devouring God's feathered creatures, even putting a bell around his neck. ...
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September 13th, 2010
God and Gospel meet African tradition in the South Carolina Lowcountry
"You sure you want to drive out there?" an 82-year-old farmer warns when I stop to ask for directions on a dusty, rutted road in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. "Ahead are the Gullah islands," ...
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April 13th, 2010
The world's last three Shakers stand strong, proud and hopeful
Strolling along a quiet farm road, flanked by 19th-century white clapboard buildings, Frances Carr is an endangered species in a ...
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March 9th, 2010
Meet the followers of a dwindling ancient faith which they claim influenced Christianity
His admirers claim he was the first to teach monotheism, the existence of heaven and hell and the final triumph of good over evil. Plato ...
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October 30th, 2009
Southern Pagans peek out of the broom closet
Tom Cornwell had a secret stashed in the ottoman of his Savannah, Georgia, home. A former Jehovah's Witness elder and minister for 20 years, he ...
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September 4th, 2009
Challenges for Bible Belt atheists
A red Hyundai with a Darwin fish and an "atheist" license tag eases up to a fast food drive-through window in Huntsville, Alabama. A van pulls up behind it. Five children slip out, line up ...
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February 9th, 2009
Inside a "voudou" village in South Carolina
He should have honored their ways.
When a county health inspector threatened to press charges against the members of Oyotunji ...
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November 16th, 2008
Descended from the Jesus Movement of the 60s and 70s, The Twelve Tribes strives to restore true Christianity
When Shuvael and Matanah Hebert sold their upscale, four-bedroom home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to ...
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August 12th, 2008
Amish teens flirt with modernity before deciding to embrace the church
Joseph Miller says he likes driving Italian sports cars, drinking tequila and partying all night—and, oh yeah, he’s an Amish teenager. “But that ...
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June 25th, 2008
Searching for spiritual explanations for ghosts in America’s most haunted city
Young lovers hear inhuman growls when they stroll past it. Passing tourists feel tugs at their shopping bags, but when they whirl around, nothing is there. Teenage thrill-seekers take photos ...
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May 22nd, 2008
Some Navajo Indians mix Christianity with the old ways
Raymond Lewis, a retired mechanic living in the Navajo Nation in Arizona, tucks away his rosary and rises from kneeling and praying in front of a statue ...
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April 11th, 2008
Seekers find salvation in New Age capital of America
Yvonne Draper came to Sedona to kill herself. With a ruptured disc in her back, a hip that slid out of the socket, knees and ankles that ...
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February 28th, 2008
The Mormon Church is busy growing (and challenging misconceptions)
"You're not true Christians," shouts the barrel-chested 43-year-old Lonie Pursifull to a group of Mormons passing through Temple Square, the world headquarters for the Church of Jesus Christ ...
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February 27th, 2008
BYU students are proud of their faith but it doesn't mean they're all the same
Bushy haired, scruffy and wild-eyed, a punk-rock singer bellows out the words to an irksome tune. Blaring throughout the campus, the singer's lyrics laud the virtues of environmentalism. ...
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May 8th, 2007
Why Latinos are increasingly converting to Islam
As a girl in Catholic school, Khadijah Rivera dreamed of becoming a nun despite the fact she feared Jesus. She was frightened by her church's bloodied statue of ...
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January 5th, 2007
Battling for the heart of Jewish mysticism, Hollywood and the Hasidim offer different paths
One rabbi who studied it grew crazy, one died and another became so bewildered that he lost his faith. According to Jewish tradition, the study of the Kabbalah ...
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October 30th, 2006
This Halloween Modern Satanists are just asking for a little understanding
Syn Holliday is a family man with three young children, a loving wife and a suburban home next door to a devout Mormon family his children regularly play ...
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July 27th, 2006
Pro-life gays and lesbians see the fight for the unborn related to their struggle
Steve Cook flinched as a heckler hollered, "You're a traitor to the gay community." One of the signs Cook held read, "Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians," and ...
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June 20th, 2006
How living with a street gang led an agnostic anthropologist to faith
Thomas Ward agonized over a choice: should he cheat death by ditching his research or forge ahead and prepare to die? He decided to prepare to die. ...
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May 22nd, 2006
Jewish-Christians at USC struggle with the effects of conversion to Christianity
David Allen's parents wanted him to see a psychiatrist. Why? Not because he was depressed, taking drugs or getting bad grades in college but because he wanted to convert to Christianity.
Allen is one of several ...
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