You’re reading Awakenings, a newsletter on religion. Click here to get the full edition in your inbox. Samuel Goldman is an ...

Most of us have heard the phrase, “I love Jesus but I hate religion.” It sounds like a bumper sticker, but it actually taps into a massive shift happening right now. According to a 2024 Pew Research ...

Adherence to organized religion is falling in the United States, but defenders of the religious right are ascendant in positions of power in the Trump administration.

Ryan Burge’s Vanishing Church shows the importance of faith for America. Ryan Burge “stumbled” into ministry, as he put it. He left the pastorate with his church in decline, but he has not yet given ...

Supporters of both major U.S. political parties tend to claim their presidential candidate is the “real” Christian or the “better” Christian or just the “true” Christian. For a majority of white ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — After years of steady decline, the number of Americans who identify as Christian is “leveling off” at around six ...

When he talks about the role of religion in the founding of the United States, historian Gregg Frazer does not attract eager audiences. “Neither side really wants to hear what I say," says Frazer, a ...

A pair of lectures by world-renowned scholars next month at Calvin College will address what Calvin's Joel Carpenter calls a sleeper topic in the study of the history of Christianity. First Kwame ...

The article argues that the Christian nationalism movement threatens the religious neutrality intended by the Founding Fathers. The Declaration of Independence used generic terms for God to protect ...

As of 2020, people who identify with a religion make up about 76% of the world’s population, according to a new Pew Research Center study on global religious change. This is down by about 1 percentage ...

Nearly all Filipinos believe in God, most pray daily and 92% identify as Christian, with Catholics as the majority.