religion

Conservatives’ veneration for the founders opens the door for a secular vision for America’s public schools.

Though some have likened it to Sodom and Gomorrah, New York City has a long history of religious vibrancy.

Years before Stonewall, many clergy members were standing on the front lines for gay rights.

Both the nation and the Church have depended on the energy and expertise of nuns. They’re vanishing. Now what?

You can thank Eric Voegelin for the right’s clichéd catchall critique for the left.

It’s important to remember why analogies to Jesus should stay out of the political realm. The results are always ugly.

"Late Night with the Devil," a “found footage” horror film, perfectly captures the mood and style that surrounded media depictions of the occult in the 1970s.

Right-wing evangelicalism’s moral and religious descent into Trumpism has been near-total. Is there a way out?

How the spectacle of the 1806 solar eclipse impacted the national consciousness.

The President's spiritual journey transformed him and the nation.

Belief that schools must teach moral values is older than public schools themselves. But whose morals?

A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

Wednesday night will bring a brilliant meteor shower, but the far bigger Leonid shower 190 years ago had people believing Judgment Day was at hand.

Jeremy Workman and Robert Lyons’s film reconstructs the passage of a 1970 law that made the state a sanctuary for people seeking abortions.

What explains the traditionalist Catholic infatuation with ‘The Exorcist’?

The new album “Some Mississippi Sunday Morning” collects gospel songs recorded inside a notorious penitentiary.

Requiring rest, rather than work, is still a radical idea.

Inmates at this bucolic but brutal prison have long been singing the blues to sustain themselves, and a new compilation of gospel songs continues the legacy.

When drafting the Constitution, our founders had no need of prayer.

The political preacher who made the religion look bad.