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 ...

Faith is not a destination where you arrive and judge others from a height. It is a movement – sometimes steady, sometimes ...

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 ...

After climbing for decades, the percentage of Americans with no religion has leveled off. For the past few years, the share of adults who identify as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” has ...

I certainly understand why many wonderful people hate religion. I know intelligent and compassionate people who use the word "religion" as a synonym for superstition, hierarchy and every form of ...

I didn’t want to write anything about this because it seemed, well, too obvious. But for a depressing number of people in this country, including folks who really should know better, apparently it isn ...

A friend of mine once said, "Once a Catholic, always a Catholic." And he's no longer a practicing Catholic. The idea behind his saying was that religion sticks with you, even when you no longer ...

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 ...

Several quantitative studies have shown growing interest in Christianity among young men in Finland, and there are indications of a similar development in many other Western countries as well. A ...