What's lurking behind Europe's spike in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. And - six years ago, Anne Rice told us she was abandoning vampires and committing to Christ. Now her faith has fled...and the vampires are back.

"If you're not totally bowled over by the fact that you exist, your humanity is incomplete." Deepak Chopra talks to Jeff Kripal about the mystery of being alive. Plus, misconceptions about depicting Muhammad.

Two amazing radio docs from our archives. An intimate portrait of snake handlers and strychnine-drinkers in the hills of Appalachia, and Elizabeth and Caroline: twin sisters, two faiths.

Nearly all religions contain some advice about how to deal with our own mortality. This week, a whole hour on the human will to exist forever, including a conversation with "Left Behind" author Tim Lahaye.

A panel of African-American preachers talk frankly about racism, white privilege, and the role of the black church in the months after Ferguson. Also: modern druids at Stonehenge, and Soundscapes: Sikhism.

Our favorite annual tradition--a review of the year's top religion news stories; a new biography of Pope Francis calls him one of the greatest reformers of the Catholic Church, and Soundscapes: nam-myoho-renge-kyo

If Jesus somehow woke up in 2014, he might be sporting a yarmulke and side curls. As James Carroll wants to remind us, Jesus was above all else an Orthodox Jew. Plus: cancer and Catholicism, and soundscapes: om

Three of our favorite guests from 2014: Barbara Brown Taylor on learning to love the dark, the New Yorker's cartoon editor on religion and humor, and Barbara Ehrenreich memoir on mysticism. Plus, Soundscapes: sacred harp

A full hour on the legacy of polygamy in the Mormon Church. First: why the church is admitting that founder Joseph Smith had up to 40 wives. And we meet a Utah family of 27.

Why Thailand's new military government is trying to clean up the Buddhist monkhood, Gene Weingarten's new children’s book on atheism, and The Soundscapes of Faith: Judaism