Eight years ago, religious conservatives made a bargain with Donald Trump, accepting the leadership of a flagrant immoralist as the price of protection against a then-ascendant-seeming secular ...

In the centuries after Jesus’s death, Christian communities wrestled with conflicting interpretations of doctrine, scripture, and identity. This video explores how “orthodoxy” and “heresy” were not ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs another case at the intersection of religion and public education, state school boards, legislatures, and other education officials are greenlighting a series of ...

Is religious freedom a wedge issue? The unanimous agreement between all the justices in a decision just issued by the U.S. Supreme Court suggests the answer is no. The Court’s example provides an ...

The share of Americans who identify as Christian continues to fall across the U.S, with the exception of two states, a Newsweek map shows. However, the decline appears to be leveling out, as younger ...

The decline of Christianity in the U.S. has slowed over the past few years and now appears to have bottomed out, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center released this week. The number ...

Who is Jonathan Rauch, a gay Jewish atheist, to write a book about how conservative American Christians are failing themselves and democracy? “With that background, it’s certainly the most ...

A sweeping census on the state of American religion reveals a less sensational tale of Christianity in decline and a rise of the religiously unaffiliated compared to a decade ago. Pew Research Center ...

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

The earliest known evidence of Christianity north of Italy was recently unveiled by archaeologists, who call the discovery one of the "most important testimonies of early Christianity." The artifact, ...

The Christian population has almost quadrupled in the last century. There are currently 2.6 billion Christians worldwide, accounting for approximately one third of the global population; by 2050, the ...

Ben Christenson was raised Anglican — church every Sunday, a religious school, and Christian camp every summer. But Christenson, 27 of Fairfax, Virginia, always found himself longing for a more ...