Curated

David Gushee, the outgoing president of the American Academy of Religion, continues to believe not only that religion can bring us together, but also that its potential to heal has never been more needed.

A multi-disciplinary team of scientists used 3,700-year-old archaeological evidence from Jordan’s Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project to understand the end to a civilization that existed near the Dead Sea.

The goal of the Lakshmi Cow Sanctuary, a nonprofit, is to save cows destined for the slaughterhouse.

Whether Democrats or Republicans, Christians in the U.S. can be active participants in party politics and still be true to their faith, says a consultant on religion and politics and former staffer in the Obama administration’s faith-based initiative.

This year’s streamlining process managed to nudge the standards in the direction of less biased coverage of the world’s religions, but much work remains if Texas students are to receive balanced instruction.

Because science and religion can complement one another as well as come into conflict, the story of their interrelations is complex.

When the vice president speaks up for human rights, it’s through the narrow lens of his conservative Christian worldview.

Why is chaplaincy growing when institutional religious affiliation is on the decline?

In focusing on a pastoral response, the GC2 Summit risks replicating many of the same issues of insularity that created the need for #ChurchToo in the first place.

In his 10th book, Quaker teacher and spiritual mentor Parker Palmer, 79, offers readers a backward view of his life and what he has learned.

Many charities find that project fundraising — raising money for a specific need like shoes or an orphanage — is far more effective than asking for undesignated funds.

In an era when round buildings were in vogue, the shape of the American Baptist Churches USA “Holy Doughnut” completed in 1962 symbolized the denomination’s philosophical commitment to church autonomy.