What place should religion have in a pluralistic democracy, and how can faith both strengthen democratic life and challenge ...

Matthew Kaemingk and Shadi Hamid argue in their new book, Can Religion Save Democracy?, that our fractious democracy would ...

A new book from a Christian theologian and a Muslim political scientist purports to be radical. It isn’t radical enough.

(RNS) — Most religious doctrines do not require an embrace of democracy. But in today’s world, authoritarians are attempting to do the opposite — to recruit communities of faith to undermine democracy ...

The loss of religion hasn’t meant a loss of religious convictions, but instead has meant the rise of a new fanaticism, Vox’s ...

While my faith journey may differ from that of Christine Mehta, I agreed with just about everything she had to say — and everything she attributed to Jonathan Rauch’s new book, “Cross Purposes,” on ...

A few years ago, I got into an argument with a friend about religion. The question we tussled over: Would America be better off without Christianity? She had grown up in an evangelical Christian ...

“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Why are gender issues overwhelmingly important ...

This week, Maggie Siddiqi, new senior fellow at Interfaith Alliance, is with host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush discussing Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education, Bishop ...

David DeCosse is the director of religious and Catholic ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and is a regular commentator at National Catholic Reporter. Views are his own. This essay, "In ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...