In many Western contexts, organized religion is declining, often due to hypocrisy, politicization or shallow faith. But ...

Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...

(RNS) — Most Americans believe religious liberty is a good thing and would be scandalized to know how some religious leaders, and even political leaders, are actively distorting its meaning to expand ...

There was a time when religion served as the guiding star for people, a moral compass that steered their lives and decisions. I know that to be true because as a minister’s son, I grew up in the ...

Tenrikyo is a popular religious movement founded in the nineteenth century based on the revelation of Nakayama Miki. The group become a Shinto sect in 1908 only after reforms in response to charges of ...