Kim Lawton, E.J. Dionne, and John Allen join Bob Abernethy to discuss religion news in the year to come.

Bob Abernethy, Kim Lawton, E.J. Dionne, and Roland Martin review the religion news of the year past.

You feel the sense of rejection that is very real for people nowadays losing their home, not finding the shelter they want, not finding acceptance, feeling rejected by human beings or by God, by institutions.

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Saint Nicholas was known for his generosity and good will. He was so generous that he became known as "the gift giver."

What do religious leaders most hope for in the first 100 days of the Obama administration?

What do religious leaders most hope for in the first 100 days of the Obama administration?

Where will Barack Obama and his family attend church after they move into the White House?

This nonprofit ships out 40 million meals a year for poor children around the world at just 13 cents a meal. Church volunteers and one dedicated man make it all possible.

Cows, goats, worms, water wells, and sewing machines are being donated this holiday season to charitable organizations, including Heifer International, World Vision, and Oxfam.

Richard Cizik has resigned from the National Association of Evangelicals amid controversy about his recent statements on civil unions.

What do religious leaders most hope for in the first 100 days of the Obama administration?

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement formed decades ago with the intention to reach out to the Jewish people, regardless of background, to teach them about their faith.

“Do you want to reconstitute immune systems or do you want to reconstitute lives?” asks Dr. Joseph Mamlin, who runs a clinic in Kenya that now serves over 60,000 patients. “We’ve decided to go after lives.”

Pastor and bestselling author Rick Warren hosted a special gathering honoring President George W. Bush’s work to fight HIV/AIDS. Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly Managing Editor Kim Lawton covered the event.

As President-elect Barack Obama put his economic team together this week, there were more signs of the magnitude of the financial crisis across the globe.

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton says President-elect Barack Obama’s newly named head of the Domestic Policy Council, Melody Barnes, has strong ties to the moderate and liberal faith community and has worked to include people of faith in policy discussions.

A number of us started calling it "church" kind of flippantly. It feels like church. It really has, for some of us, become church.

Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton says faith-based community activists are talking with the Obama administration transition team about how the government can do more to stop preventable foreclosures.

Finally, excerpts from an evening with Garrison Keillor. The bard of Lake Wobegon and “A Prairie Home Companion” was also at the Washington National Cathedral recently, talking about poetry, singing old hymns, and telling stories about the strict fundamentalists who raised him.