In August of 1790, President George Washington visited Rhode Island, which a few months earlier had ratified the U.S. Constitution. Among those who welcomed the new president was the Hebrew ...

In many Western contexts, organized religion is declining, often due to hypocrisy, politicization or shallow faith. But ...

Recent surveys show that the religious landscape of the United States is in flux, with attitudes shifting in parts of the country critical to future elections. The importance of religion in the lives ...

Religious freedom has long been a rallying cry of the religious and political right. In recent years, it’s been used to provide a rationale for exemptions from a variety of civil right laws. But at ...

However, sociologists of religion Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan Cragun insist in their new book, Beyond Doubt: the Secularization of Society, that “Secularization is happening.

Somewhere along the way, the Republican Party "got religion." I am not sure when this happened. The party of Eisenhower was a party of fiscal discipline, e.g., balanced budgets. Ike warned us about ...

Co-authored with Dr. Ken Baskin. Few things are more important to human psychology writ large than religion. But what does this concept really mean? The more deeply we investigate it, the odder ...

We might agree religious freedom is a good thing—but can we agree on what it really means? We might agree religious freedom is a good thing—but can we agree on what it really means? This episode of ...

Religion is often confused with spirituality. People think that if they are religious, they are spiritual. Spirituality, awakening, Enlightenment, however, is beyond religion. While religion can be ...

Pius XII upset Vatican tradition, turned a new papal face to the world last week. One evening soon after the fall of Rome, hobnailed boots clumped into the plush-gold Throne Room at the Papal Palace.

The rummage sale is a well-entrenched church institution, and few people know more about it than Sylvia McDaniel. 63, who helps to run a “next-to-new shop” in Springfield, Mo. With her help, ...