The United States had its 250th birthday last week. And, in the last few episodes we have tried to understand the role of Christianity in America’s founding. But what kinds of Christians were the ...

From the abolition of slavery to civil rights, religion has driven America's great moral advances. As the nation celebrates ...

What was religious life like in America in 1776? In this episode of the Harvard Religion Beat podcast, Professor Catherine ...

The Department of Justice on Friday released the Religious Liberty Commission's draft report, which provides recommendations ...

The number of American adults who identify with Christianity, with another religion, or with no religion have all remained steady, a new Pew Research Center report finds. Surveys conducted since 2020 ...

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

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After decades of steady decline, new research indicates that the number of Americans identifying as religious may have stabilized, signaling a possible plateau in the nation’s ongoing religious ...

President Donald Trump declared that his second term has sparked a “tremendous resurgence” of religion in America. Trump, 80, ...

Ask someone in Jackson, Mississippi what they did last Sunday and there’s a reasonable chance they were at church. Ask the same question in Burlington, Vermont and the answer looks very different.

The Horn Shelter Man ranks as one of the oldest identifiable inhabitants in the lands that became America. He lived near a river now called Brazos and a place now called Waco more than 10,000 years ...