Uncertainty about faith can be anxiety provoking and even cause people to leave religion altogether. But that’s not the way it works in all traditions. In fact, some are exactly the opposite.

Religion can help provide answers to many questions in life — big and small. And in doing so, give a sense of security and understanding of the world and our place in it. But what happens when doubt starts to creep in?  As more and more people leave organized religion, is doubt the cause, or could learning how to embrace doubt actually be the answer to the modern crisis of faith?

In conversations about women’s rights, religion and feminism are often cast as incompatible. But religious women tend to see it differently.

About 70% of all Americans consider themselves spiritual in some way, whether it be a belief in the soul, spirits or just the idea that something’s going on beyond the natural world and what science can prove. But that doesn’t mean they’re ordering off the menu of organized religion.