How did conservative evangelicals, who tend to present a unified front on most matters of political significance, end up in such a public battle over how to approach environmental issues like global ...

In many Western contexts, organized religion is declining, often due to hypocrisy, politicization or shallow faith. But decline is not the same as disappearance. Faith is moving from inherited habits ...

Question: I’ve been taught that on the Jewish High Holy Day of Yom Kippur, our fate for the coming year is decided and sealed. We read that it is determined who shall live and who shall die, who shall ...

As a child, religion scholar Elaine Pagels had very little exposure to religion. Her father, a biologist, brought her up to think that religion was obsolete and the Gospels were “just crazy old folk ...

Frank Wilczek has a special fondness for rainbows. It’s not just the show-stopping, full-arc-across-the-sky rainbows that catch the Nobel laureate’s eye. He’s equally transfixed by the array of color ...

(The Conversation) — Researchers have spent decades studying how demographics affect American students’ opportunities and performance, but many questions remain about religion and school. My latest ...

This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. When I asked a Jesuit friend who has worked for decades with high school students ...

Most U.S. adults believe that God gave humans a duty to protect and care for the Earth (66%), and 57% believe that God gave humans the right to use the Earth for humanity’s benefit, according to the ...

The UK has elected "the most openly secular House of Commons in history", according to a new study. Two in five MPs taking their seats in Parliament opted not to swear an oath to God, including the ...

New research published in the Journal of Religion and Health has found faith in God and trust in a higher power declined across the course of the pandemic. The German survey found the longer the ...