In many Western contexts, organized religion is declining, often due to hypocrisy, politicization or shallow faith. But ...

(RNS) — Last year’s most read, most shared and most likely, in the eyes of RNS’ editors, to shape the year ahead.

Churches closing their doors, mosques with dwindling Friday crowds, and temples turned into museums. Across the globe, ...

Several respected news sources and journals have, during the past year, noted an unexpected demographic shift. Like most 18- to 30-year-olds, Gen Z (those born after 2000) is rebelling. It appears, ...

Atheist though I am, my wife's rabbi insisted on parading me around on his shoulders as part of recent Simchat Torah festivities. As a volunteer security guard for the synagogue, I was weighed down ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

(The Conversation) — Strong religious beliefs often shape disapproval of abortion – in the abstract. But when young women are actually deciding whether to terminate a pregnancy, faith’s role is more ...

Amy Adamczyk has received funding from a range of organizations, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, ...

Since the invention of money, the major religions of the world have grappled with its effect on human morality, the unequal distribution of wealth, and the indignities of poverty. “Through money, even ...

Judaism is a powerful and complex religion. Over the last 2,000 years, there have developed numerous different denominations of rabbinical Judaism: today, we have reform, orthodox, ultra-orthodox, ...

May a religious group legally fire a non-ministerial employee (like a secretary or janitor) for violating the group's religious beliefs about sex or marriage? As I explained yesterday, this is the ...