Mark Kellner

The Salvation Army’s 110-year-old gambit of giving American soldiers in the First World War a “taste of home” helped fuel this nation’s obsession with the circular pastry, its national leader said.

On today’s “Higher Ground Podcast” The Washington Times’ Mark Kellner joins Billy Hallowell to go behind the headlines on the biggest faith news of the week.

Italian scholar Massimo Introvigne did not plan on becoming a leading authority on religious freedom -- his academic specialty is the sociology of new religious movements. But the precarious status of religious minorities around the world has pushed him into the arena.

A new poll shows growing displeasure among Americans and U.S. Catholics for Pope Francis, who nonetheless maintains high approval ratings.

Pope Francis lashed out Monday against surrogate motherhood, calling it a “deplorable” practice that turns an unborn child “into an object of trafficking.”

Evangelical author Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic for 56 years, says her entry into heaven will be like the end of a marathon.

An ancient inscription paraphrasing the first two verses of Psalm 86 has been uncovered at a remote site in Israel’s Judean desert, archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said Wednesday.

Rabbi Moshe Englander stared down at a bookmark where he calligraphed a woman’s name in Hebrew as a half-dozen or so visitors at the Museum of the Bible watched the lettering appear piecemeal on a display screen.

Alabama and Texas offer the most faith-friendly regulatory environments in the nation for religious nonprofits, while Maryland and Virginia rank near the bottom, according to a new study.

Evangelist Franklin Graham warned Christian broadcasters of a “coming storm” of demonic criticism that could cancel their cloud data storage and bank accounts, key elements of business and ministry in the digital age.