Robert Gates’s memoir has been criticized, but just as he did his duty to his commanders-in-chief, he now does his duty to his fellow citizens.

Readers write on Elizabeth A. Johnson's two-part feature on Darwin (and the author replies); plus, responses to our feature on the state of Jewish-Catholic dialogue.

Philip Seymour Hoffman had the greatest range of any character actor of his generation, and his filmography is stupendous in both its length and its variety.

Hansen includes a diverse collection of denominational affiliations and explores some of the most compelling conundrums confronting today’s military chaplaincy.

John Dickinson and Joseph Galloway receive long-overdue attention in this splendid history of the First and Second Continental Congresses.

Kate Atkinson folds coincidence and a kind of Borges-like fantasy into the framework of a classic English country-house novel.

Though the number of Christians killed and persecuted every year is contested, Shortt clears away misconceptions that other religions are the source of the problem.

Let us give / While we live / Bewildered thanks to God for what we have ...

Many artists and writers, not necessarily religious, speak of the influence of religious language on their work.