President Donald Trump, who briefly pledged to “fight” the National Rifle Association after a February mass shooting at a Florida high school, is expected to throw his full weight behind the powerful gun rights group on Friday at an event in Dallas.

Speaker Paul Ryan Thursday reversed his decision to force House Chaplain Patrick Conroy to step down after the Jesuit priest sent a letter withdrawing his resignation and as bipartisan outrage continued to mount.

A denominational leader’s claim that abused women should remain in their broken marriages is forcing Southern Baptists to pick sides.

The White House said those working on the initiative will provide policy recommendations from faith-based and community programs on “more effective solutions to poverty” and inform the administration of “any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.”

The Sunday before Scott Pruitt’s confirmation hearing to run the Environmental Protection Agency, Pruitt stood on the stage of his hometown church, bowed his head, and prayed.

Chaplains historically act as priests and consolers but never act (successfully) as prophets. The encyclopedias tell us that in the old days, royal chaplains might be involved in secular policy matters, but any such involvement occurred strictly on the side of the monarch.

I was traveling when the news of Dr. James Cone’s death was reported on Saturday. The first thought that came to mind was what seems to be a providential concurrence: His passing came two days after the opening of the National Peace and Justice Memorial.

The country’s leading religious news wire hired a new publisher in 2016. Then it all fell apart.

Cone’s theology contrasted sharply with traditional theological approaches in that he articulated God’s identification with U.S. blacks. In portraying Christ’s blackness, he upended the assumptions of a field dominated by white theologians and helped spawn other theories of liberation.

The relationship between the number of Catholics in a state and the intensity of the state’s anti-abortion policies is completely inverse.

In a move that might surprise some, the conservative evangelical Liberty University has chosen the liberal evangelical icon Jimmy Carter to give its commencement speech this year.

Democrats say the speaker was peeved with Patrick Conroy for praying about no “winners and losers” under the tax bill.