Samantha Power, a former journalist and longtime human-rights activist who heads the U.S. Agency for International Development, is keenly aware of the role religious pluralism plays in preventing wars ...

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.

At a Senate session last week, Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, a Democrat in Austin, stood outside the brass railing of the chamber floor to speak with a staffer when Republican Sen. Angela Paxton of McKinney ...

Religion publishers are launching a wave of titles with a Christian perspective addressing many of the fundamental questions rattling the nation today: Is the United States a land where people heed ...

One of the oldest insights of sociologists of religion is that religions and national governments are drawn to each other. Nevertheless, the kind of power necessary for governments of nations is the ...

Donald Trump, hardly known as a scholar of Christian scripture, is now hawking Bibles. It is a strange story that sums up an important reality in America today. Traditional religious practice is ...

(The Conversation) — Native American groups were aware of the region’s dramatic features. Since the national park’s creation, other faiths have also been inspired by its beauty, from Christians to New ...

There’s an image that captures the threat posed by the White Christian nationalist movement — and how it could become even more dangerous over the next four years. “If I get in, you’re going to be ...