(RNS) — Child orator. Farmhand. Agnostic. Only one of those titles would be commonly guessed to describe the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But a new 420-page book by scholar Lerone Martin reveals those ...

An actual avalanche happens in the background of an early scene in “Fjord,” as snow gathers and masses and tumbles down a ...

White House-backed event billed as ‘One Nation Under God’ criticized for blurring lines between church and state ...

The Pew Research Center poll found deep partisan gaps around questions on how much the U.S. government should embrace ...

Middlemarch, which a Guardian poll of ‘experts’ has named as the best novel ever, is overrated. I enjoyed reading it when ...

I have a lifelong affinity for McDonald’s, especially the hamburger in all of its variations — Quarter Pounder, Big Mac, ...

I have just spent 10 days on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. If you’re unaware of this particular spiritual ...

Commander Reid Wiseman’s remark “I’m not religious, but …” captures our response to the Artemis II space mission, for it surfaces the inner struggle between religious and scientific ways of knowing so ...

He has described Christian nationalism as the worship of power instead of Christ, and “a betrayal of Jesus of Nazareth.” The Democratic primary brought 2.3 million voters to the polls—nearly double ...

The question of whether God or some form of higher power exists has been at the center of human debate for centuries. While settling that debate is far beyond our scope here, it’s worth noting that ...