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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Participation in traditional religions in America continues to decline, but eternal questions don’t go away. Many of those who now call themselves spiritual but not religious are searching for ways to ...

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 ...

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 ...