Being religious can mean very different things depending on where and when you look. In many ancient cultures, religion ...

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

Religious freedom has been at the center of American history since the founding. (And by the founding, I mean of the United States of America, not including the roughly century-and-a-half of colonial ...

Everyone seems to have an opinion on the demographic changes taking place in our societies. At the same time, another transition seems to have escaped public notice. We are moving steadily to making ...

A friend of mine once said, "Once a Catholic, always a Catholic." And he's no longer a practicing Catholic. The idea behind his saying was that religion sticks with you, even when you no longer ...

Traditionally the relation between philosophy and religion has been one either of identity, as in the early Middle Ages, or of hostility, as in the Age of Reason. In the eighteenth and nineteenth ...

In a world where religious institutions have long defined our understanding of spirituality, a growing number of individuals are exploring a different path: being spiritual but not religious (SBNR).

Source: Dr. Gleb Tsipursky Ph.D. Imagine the following scenario: you have been raised in a deeply evangelical household. From an early age, your parents taught you to pray daily and told you that the ...

A nation dedicated to gathering in the Jews of the world, Israel has never been able to answer a question basic to its existence: What is a Jew? Does a Jew become Jewish by birth, or by religious ...