Kimberly Winston

What makes for such a perfect marriage between science fiction— sometimes called “speculative fiction” when paired with the fantasy genre — and Mormonism, a pioneer-age faith that originated with an unschooled American farmer?

The Jesuit-run St. Francis Mission, which serves the Lakota peoples in south-central South Dakota, announced it will return about 500 acres to the Rosebud Sioux tribe, a band of Lakotas with a reservation in the same area.

This Saturday (April 29) marks the end of that artificial construct between politics and media known as the “first 100 days.”

A new study shows there may be more than twice as many atheists in the U.S. than previous studies have found.

A New York-based advocacy group called Parity is asking Christians who favor LGBT equality — “queer positive Christians,” in their parlance — to show their support by wearing “glitter ash” on their foreheads to mark Ash Wednesday (March 1).

In another sign that America is a diverse country, a new poll reveals that 1 in 5 U.S. adults grew up in a family with more than one religion.

Salt Lake City — which serves as the global headquarters for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — played host over the weekend to the marriage of Jackie Biskupski, the city’s first openly gay mayor, to her fiancee, Betty Iverson.