Church leaders have almost always faced off over pastors’ shaving habits. You're more likely to see a beard in the pulpit today than at any time since the 1800s. But beards—especially among ...

Hudson lives in Wytheville and is an accountant with a governmental agency. I would suggest that Sarah Blake ("Christians should speak out on same-sex unions," Feb. 5) brush up on her biblical ...

Scores of NYPD officers have turned to the Bible to avoid shaving off their beards, police sources said. A recent edict that cops dress neater banned beards, but allowed for both religious and ...

Reprinted with permission from "Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair" In the spring of 2013, Rick Warren, the goateed Baptist preacher, invited the men of his twenty-three ...

An Amish splinter group has gone on a crime spree, forcibly cutting the beards off of their rivals. Many religions, including Sikhism, Islam, and sects of Judaism, encourage or require their men ...