Worship — which is what makes a sanctuary a sanctuary — has the formative effect of firing the imagination in order that Christians see the world and its politics as God’s and so possessed of grace and truth.

John Calvin argued for the plain meaning of the Bible while writing thousands of pages of commentary to help make plain what the scriptures were saying and teaching. What was plain and clear plainly needed some explaining.

A new book argues that the giving patterns of today’s wealthy may present challenges to the democratic process.

Those who are highly religious and those who have no religious belief at all tend to be less scared of death than the average person, which suggests that many of our behaviours are motivated by a fear of dying.

For anyone who has spent any time on the religion beat, it doesn’t take long to realize it’s not exactly a rainbow coalition of culturally diverse reporters, or stories for that matter.

According to Reuters, the Religious Left is emerging as a political force in the Trump era. Oh, yeah? Is that like the time they were emerging in 2006? Or 2008? Or 2009? Or 2013?

Republicans and Democrats had competing motives for bringing up religious freedom during last week’s confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch.

Over the centuries, the Abrahamic faiths have found many things to fight over, and many modes of co-existence. A writer about Islam has just put forward a very different sort of proposal for terms on which Abraham’s children might co-exist.

We’ve had decades of experiments with charter schools and vouchers. There are no resounding success stories.