In “The Use and Misuse of Religion” (column, Sept. 27), David Brooks makes a characteristically compelling case for the proper relationship between faith and politics. Yet as a lifelong Christian, I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than two dozen faith groups on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Trump administration’s ...

The dance, really a marathon that brings to mind the classic movie “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”, has been going on as long as there have been governments and organized religion. That is to say ...

Berkeley historian Ronit Stahl, in a 2022 interview, said, “Many of the Founders — though I wouldn’t say all — were very concerned about religion as the guiding force for government. That wasn’t a ...

(RNS) — Shortly before the speaking program began at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday (Sept. 21) to kick off the massive memorial service honoring conservative activist Charlie Kirk, ...

On the question of political affiliation — Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative — how do American Catholics compare with other religious denominations? And what could it mean for the ...

No matter who is elected to replace President Bush next year — Democrat or Republican — odds are that he or she will seek ways to promote small and religious-oriented charities. That won’t please many ...

The wall separating church and state in the United States may be fading, but the consequences are far from simple to predict. Consider the announcement from the Internal Revenue Service that houses of ...

A lawsuit filed in Sept. 2024 by a group of major religious and conservative groups is seeking to overturn the Johnson Amendment, a decades-old rule that bars churches from endorsing politicians. In ...