Religion focuses on the unknown and the unseen. While religion has been a tremendous force for good, it has also poisoned politics and given rise to extremists who target “the other.” I remember first ...

With the GOP now having been transformed from a political party into a religious sect that stands in opposition to the ...

Mike Hout, a professor of sociology at New York University, said it was likely that politics had a role to play in the change ...

and even to the English legal tradition before America existed, you find that freedom of religion is actually a Christian ...

It is time, faith leaders say, to remind the country of religion's role in caring for the poor and the stranger ...

Most on the U.S. left, while decrying Kirk's murder, do not see him as a martyr. They view him as a polarizing figure, as he ...

In the Book of Galatians, Paul contrasts the fruit of the spirit with what he called the “acts of the flesh,” the sins that ...

A new study suggests that individuals who leave their religion tend to become more politically liberal, often adopting views ...

Recent events, like the Turning Point USA forum in Ohio, where students questioned gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s legitimacy based on whether he "really" shared their faith, highlight a ...

Americans are used to hearing about the tradition of separating church and state, but the two are increasingly fused in ...

Americans' views of religion's role in society have grown more positive in recent years. But many feel their religious beliefs conflict with the mainstream.

Of the many changes in our politics — the movement of political power from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West, the coarsening of our national conversation, the transformations wrought by ...