A large majority of Americans feel that religion is losing influence in public life, according to a 2019 Pew Research Center survey. While some say this is a good thing, many more view it as a negative development, reflecting the broad tendency of Americans to
The American justice system’s approach to crime seems to be: Lock up as many people as possible. This is one of many reasons why we’re the most incarcerated country in the world.
A majority of the children living in low- and middle-income nations are experiencing “learning poverty,” according to a World Bank report published Oct. 17.
(RNS) — A proposed new rule could allow over $30 billion in Department of Health and Human Services grants to flow to organizations that openly refuse to serve people of faith, women and LGBTQ people. The administration claims that this rule only applies to child
(RNS) — A newly discovered letter from one former prominent leader of the Southern Baptist Convention to another reveals a depth of mistrust and suspicion toward the denomination's first black president.
Cain Hope Felder died on October 1, 2019, at the age of 76. He was an internationally recognized New Testament scholar who forged new paths in African-American biblical hermeneutics.
FBI agents are speaking fmore frankly at churches and other religious spaces about politically motivated violence.
A new rule issued by the Trump administration, which grants broad conscience protections to medical institutions and personnel who object to providing certain medical services on religious or moral grounds, has been vacated by a federal judge in New York.
There are many instances of letter writing as a way of thinking slowly (and affectionately). The values of patience and kindness are difficult to cultivate in our current media ecology.
On August 22, 1741, George Frideric Handel started composing. He would not leave his home for three weeks. finally emerging from his writing room with a 259-page masterpiece called Messiah. That’s the backstory, but here’s the rest of the story.