This BNG series of articles on Christianity and democracy led toward the July 4 celebration of America’s 250th birthday. The series was curated by Carol McEntyre, senior minister at First Baptist ...

A federal judge cleared the way for the nation’s first religious charter school to open in Oklahoma, bucking an earlier ...

Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that a “paradise of machines” risked undermining humanity as he opened a trip to France by posing fundamental questions about what it means to be human in the age of ...

During the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, often referred to as Tabernacles, Jews the world over will be sitting and supping, as their recent forebears and distant ancestors did during the holiday, in ...

Most Texans are good neighbors to Muslims, but far-right Republicans in the state are making life difficult for them.

The University of Edinburgh is ending its Bachelor and Master of Divinity programmes, marking a significant change for an institution whose history has been closely intertwined with theological ...

Religious behavior is almost always assessed through one simple measure – frequency of religious attendance. And there’s a good reason for that: it’s included in basically every survey of American ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s warning this week that Jewish life in his country “is no longer safe” reflects concerns voiced by some Jews in Berlin.

I will always stand up for the separation of church and state,” James Talarico told a standing-room-only crowd at the Texas Tribune Festival ...

For some conservative Christian fans of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, the idea of God being portrayed as a lion is fine.

In my childhood, there were moments when Mama would say, “I’ve had about all I’m going to take of you, young man.” I mention Mama because Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas needs Mama’s ...

Days before Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s planned visit to Washington, D.C., former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback told a gathering of religious freedom ...