Donald Trump and the Republican Party are facing furious backlash from faith leaders and parishioners concerned about the ...

Big Religion May Have Gotten Too Much Credit for the Evolution of Modern Society. Contrary to a popular hypothesis, pro-social religions didn’t kick-start complex social systems.

God’s work is worldly work, and religions are businesses like any other, argues The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power and People by Paul Seabright. Churches, mosques ...

Michael Gerson: Pete Buttigieg is thinking big about religion and politics Molly Roberts: Pete Buttigieg, millennials’ bane Jonathan Capehart: The ugly lie about black voters and Pete Buttigieg ...

Religion A Big Story in 2008 Religion took center stage in the news during 2008. Tell Me More looks back at the people and the stories that rocked the faith world — from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright ...

From papal reforms to psychedelics, here are the big religion stories RNS reporters expect to cover in 2024. Fiona Andre. Fiona Andre. (Courtesy photo) ...

Opinion Columnist. This essay is adapted from the forthcoming book “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.” My parents ate health food in my youth, in the days before Whole Foods was ...

The prospect of such upheaval also poses the first big political test for religions in the U.S. in the time of Trump 2.0. So far in these tense political times, the big story about religion is the ...

WASHINGTON − A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school, a major loss for those advocating a greater role for religion in public life ...

The big religious shifts of the past were the periodic Great Awakenings that beginning in the mid-1700s led to surges in religious attendance. This is the opposite: ...

Some are mystical: Overlapping experiences of divinity across the big religions suggest some participation in a shared spiritual reality. These convergences are not just in the peace, ...