In choosing a theme for my “Matters of Soul Importance” podcast, I leaned on G.K. Chesterton, who responded to the admonition ...

When House Speaker Mike Johnson delivered his first speech after being voted in, by his colleagues, to the speaker s chair, ...

As G.K. Chesterton quipped ... They were monarchist in politics, feudalist in economics, Catholic in religion. Then along came the philosophes. They’d been thinking about it, and they decided ...

Burt Bacharach’s songs have an inconvenient habit of catching even the most committed cynic unawares and leaving them – about three minutes later – blubbing like… Attempts to denigrate these public ...

The decline of religion means that politics has become, for many, a substitute belief system. "When men choose not to believe in God" my fellow Englishman, GK Chesterton, once observed ...

In so doing he sheds light on a number of important contemporary issues, from the question of the appropriate place of religion in presumptively 'secular' liberal-democratic regimes, to the normative ...

Can this eventuality be harnessed positively to enable Kenyans to transcend ethnicity so that religion or churches become units of political change? Can ‘God’ conceivably vote in Kenya’s ...

Post-revolutionary Iran often is depicted as a society devoid and incapable of self-criticism that is dominated by a monolithic view of religion and politics. A revolutionary Islamic ideology is ...

One thing I have come to accept in my head, but don’t fully understand in my heart, is why religion and politics are the two big unmentionables in polite society. It has been that way since ...

When we say ‘religion’ we mean things of the head and heart. We mean shared religious observances as well as personal faith and spirituality. We mean something that is intensely private, yet shapes ...

The Religious Legitimation of Politics and the Political Legitimation of Religion in Finland (LegitRel) project (2020–2024), funded by the Academy of Finland, investigates the relationship between ...

The latest religion and politics news from The Texas Tribune. By Isaac Windes, San Antonio Report for The Texas Tribune Oct. 31, 2024 The composition of the state’s hand-picked curriculum ...