How do interfaith couples decide which faith their children should adopt? "We both wanted to keep our own religions and our own identity for ourselves, so we knew from the beginning that we didn’t want our children to be just one of our faiths," says Amy Schombs, who is Jewish and whose husband is ...

For many Christians, celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany means marking the appearance of Jesus. In Western churches, the holiday emphasizes the visit of the wise men to the baby Jesus. But Eastern Orthodox churches focus on Jesus’ baptism.

It's our annual survey of the top religion and ethics stories we expect to be covering in 2015.

From ISIS to Pope Francis's US visit to war and peace in the Middle East, we discuss the top religion and ethics stories we expect to be covering in 2015.

We discuss the top religion and ethics stories of 2014 in our end-of-the-year review.

Host Bob Abernethy leads a conversation with managing editor Kim Lawton, Religion News Service editor-in-chief Kevin Eckstrom, and Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, in our annual review of the top religion and ethics stories of 2014.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees depend on hospitality in Turkey; artists picture Mary the mother of Jesus; a church invites the community to a Messiah sing-along.

“The ways of presenting Mary in art change as society evolves,” says exhibition curator Timothy Verdun, and the human intimacy on display in the images, he adds, “convey to people that God gave such enormous value to every aspect of human life that he chose to share it.”

"I’ve been singing the Messiah for a long time, so it’s very familiar music to me. We do our rehearsals, and we also then reflect ourselves individually about what the music means to us," says Kenneth E. Chadwick, a member of the Fairlington United Methodist Church choir. "The singing ...

"We need to grow in understanding. We haven’t listened to the young people, churches included, and so when I say “listen” I really mean listen to the stories of the young people," says Lisa Sharon Harper of the Christian social action group Sojourners, "because they are ones bearing the brunt ...

"We lived our life feeling comfortable, in a way, with conflict. It was always there, so maybe we don’t know how it is to live without it," says Paula Gaviria of the Colombia Victims' Unit for Attention and Reparation. "Only people who have suffered conflict, like victims, are the ones that really ...

Sacred journeys, says author Bruce Feiler, are “this experience of trying to get closer to God. There is so much noise in our lives; sometimes in order to hear you have to step away from that ordinary life and open yourself to the extraordinary."

Watch more of our conversation with Bruce Feiler on his journey to Lourdes with wounded warriors, on pilgrimage as movement, and on the power of pilgrimage as “a walk that has been ground into the stones, the dirt, the path.”

"We wanted to make it clear that this wasn’t going to be just another Hanukkah program," says Rabbi Burt Visotzky of the Jewish Theological Seminary. "We wanted it to be a mix. We wanted there to be music, we wanted there to be fun."

An evangelical leader seeks to break the "code of silence" about heroin in the church; patients seek the right to try experimental drug treatments.

Reverend Toby Larson of Celebration Anglican Church felt like he failed as a pastor when a young man from his congregation suddenly died of a heroin overdose. "Unfortunately, we’re pretty good at pastoring families that have lost people. We’re pretty good at burying people. We’re pretty lousy ...

"Faith and faith leaders really play a pivotal role in not only preventing drug use, but supporting people with addiction in their recovery, in the process of really healing themselves from a tremendously stigmatized disease."

"I’ve seen it more than once where it’s the family members simply can’t let go or decide we can leave no stone unturned," says Richard Klein of the FDA patient liaison program, "whether or not it’s what the patient really wants." But do families and patients have a right to try unapproved ...

Father Michael Doyle and his ministry to the poor in Camden, New Jersey; the growing number of parents who refuse vaccines for their children.