I rejected the church as a teen. But I’ve lately felt called to look for God – and my understanding has changed ...

Abrahamic faiths place the concept of “God” as an entity separate from and above man, indigenous peoples understand God or “Creator” as an integral, indivisible aspect of life, or nature. Some ...

With an audience of Christian, Muslim and secular thinkers gathered at the College des Bernadines on Friday evening, Pope Benedict XVI shed light upon the foundations of Europe’s culture—the "search ...

Excerpted from "A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet" For most of my life, a God that was “real” seemed a contradiction in terms. Every idea of God I had ever ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the 8/30/1997 issue of America. Two years ago America published a collection of 25 brief essays by a number of notable personalities (9/30/95).