Not since the Civil Rights Era has the religious left so publicly and collaboratively protested in the name of a social question they regard as a spiritual one.
Religious service attendance reveals a picture of steady decline. A majority of U.S. residents — 57% — say they rarely or never attend religious services.
The Halachic Left is one of several new Jewish protest groups that have formed after Oct. 7, 2023, to argue for a reclaiming of a Judaism of loving-kindness.
The American Humanist Association, which has a chapter in West Virginia, sued its water authority for awarding a $5 million grant to an Ohio Catholic college.
"As an alumna of the school, I'm just enraged," said Atalia Omer, a professor of religion, conflict and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame who co-taught the Harvard Divinity School class. Omer is Jewish and a native of Israel.
Norman Wirzba was not expecting that his book of essays about hope would land the week before Donald Trump scored a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. But the Duke theologian who writes about the environment is no stranger to contemplating upheavals, whether climate disasters, war, genocide or the excesses of finance capitalism.
Every past U.S. president has identified as Christian, and that will not change if Harris is elected in November. But as she runs for president, her religious biography will be not only history-making but will connect her to how many Americans practice and encounter faith.
Part of the new monastic movement began three decades ago among lay Protestants, Spring Forest is a model for how Christians can work, eat and worship as a community.
A new Public Religion Research Institute survey found that 31% of Hispanic Catholics, 22% of white mainline Protestants and 20% of white Catholics agree climate change is a crisis.
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff opened a White House roundtable on antisemitism Dec. 7 by declaring his steadfast commitment to his Jewish identity and to fighting the scourge of hatred toward Jews.
Tensions between LGBTQ students and administrations endure at many of the hundreds of U.S. Catholic and Protestant universities. The Christian teachings they ascribe to differ from societal values over gender identity and sexual orientation, because they assert that God created humans in unchangeable male and female identities, and sex should only happen within the marriage of a man and a woman.
A Reform rabbi and a longtime columnist for Religion News Service, James Rudin has met with popes, presidents and world-famous evangelists in his efforts to improve Jewish-Christian relations.
On Sept. 3, 56 pilgrims from four countries gathered in Mexico City to celebrate St. Phoebe’s feast day and consider how they might urge the Catholic Church to reclaim the diaconate for women.