Religion, runs an old argument, is bad for democracy. The basis of religious belief and practice is an appeal to divine authority, and modern democracy arose from the Enlightenment-era insight that we ...

Religion has provided the world with true redemption — and about an equal amount of evil. It’s given us soup kitchens and hospitals — and it’s given us inquisitions and terrorists. It’s burnished some ...

This week marks the beginning of the holiest period of the year for roughly 14 million Jews across the globe. As they celebrate the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, they begin looking back on the past twelve ...

In their attacks on God and religion, the neo-atheist authors such as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are especially vehement in their accusations concerning the effects of ...

Is religion a medicine for what ails us? If we’re talking about physical and mental health, the answer has been difficult to come by. Large-scale studies have consistently shown a strong association ...

Rev. Alex Leach in his recent Clergy Corner article, “Love is stronger than hate,” stated “As many Americans have figured out now, spirituality is something different from religion. It is richer and ...

This past week, once again a Western city was the victim of a religiously-motivated act of terror. A fanatic chose to drive a rental vehicle onto a bike path in New ...

Bear in mind that when white evangelical Protestants (WEPs) talk about “religious liberty,” they’re talking about much more than that. They’re talking about political power—who controls it, who’s ...

Last Friday, friends and admirers of Michael Cromartie gathered in Virginia for his memorial service. Cromartie was a devout Christian, a vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and in ...

The revelation that Donald Rumsfeld appended Bible verses to secret Iraq war memos is problematic on many levels, write Sally Steenland and Susan Thistlethwaite. Then-Secretary of Defense Donald ...

(RNS) — We can all agree 2020 was a bad year. But not for everybody or every pursuit: For some — the kinds of religious actors and forces that received outsized attention, support and access to power ...