In the United States, we like to claim separation of church and state, but the reality is much more complicated. Although our minds may automatically be drawn to the Religious Right as the main ...

What’s the cost of aligning Christianity to division? As the political landscape grows ever more polarized, religious language has become a tool for framing debates in extreme, all-or-nothing terms.

Seemingly everyone has an opinion on masks: when to wear them, how to wear them, which ones are best and even whether we should be wearing them at all. For those in this last camp, a popular argument ...

Government officials have traditionally steered clear of such overtly religious language, as the Constitution prohibits the ...

Note: This guest post was authored by Whitney Harper, a Ph.D. candidate in Theology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. You can contact her at: [email protected] In the ...

Speaking from the hospital while undergoing treatment for COVID-19, Donald Trump faced the camera and touted therapeutics that “look like miracles coming down from God.” The choice of words shouldn’t ...

George W. Bush began to take part in a Bible study group in 1985, after two decades of binge drinking. For two years he studied the Scriptures and put his heavy drinking behind him. By signing up, you ...

Jacqui Frost is an assistant professor of sociology at Purdue University. Shared testimonies, collective singing, silent meditation and baptism rituals – these are all activities you might find at a ...

Late last month, Senator Ted Cruz stood beside a pulpit at the Texas Faith, Family, and Freedom Forum, hosted by Texas Values, a conservative policy group based in Austin, and made the case that ...

Experts at CAP event discuss the cultural history of Darwin's theory of evolution and its role in modern society. Charles Darwin, and the legacy of his work describing evolution and natural selection, ...

Every holiday season, we all hear about the alleged war on Christmas in the United States. On any social media platform, users are bound to find someone outraged about the use of more inclusive ...

(The Conversation) — Examining how religion operates in society can help us understand why the conversation over masks has recently turned religious. (The Conversation) — Seemingly everyone has an ...