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Oct 31, 2025
Last year, I visited a Methodist church in Colebrook, New Hampshire, a small town of about 2,000 people. On a typical Sunday, around 20 people attended the service at the Trinity...
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Sep 12, 2025
The fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus has rocked the nation, prompting religious leaders to reflect on the challenges and...
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Sep 10, 2025
When researchers study people’s relationship with religion and faith, they cast a wide net of questions that get at both inner beliefs and outward practices.
Some questions...
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Aug 20, 2025
In my research on why some younger people are returning to faith, I’ve learned that this decision is often tied to a major life milestone — starting a family and having...
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Aug 6, 2025
A federal judge blocked a new law in several Arkansas districts that would require schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
The ruling, applied to the four largest...
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Jul 31, 2025
Some states are more proactive than others in protecting religious freedom, a new report from First Liberty Institute’s Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy...
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Jul 16, 2025
A sanctuary and a refuge is what church is supposed to feel like. At its best, a house of worship is a place where a stranger is welcome without judgement or suspicion, where...
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Jun 6, 2025
What does it mean to die well, with dignity? The question is at the heart of the contentious debate over whether legalizing physician-assisted death for terminally ill patients is an...
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Apr 30, 2025
In third grade, Kelsey Osgood declared to her classmates that God was “not real.” Growing up in the secular suburbs of New York City, she had already internalized the...
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Mar 31, 2025
For Ginn, Eastern Orthodoxy provided an action-oriented approach to faith, one that emphasized discipline, fasting and spiritual growth. “There is this element of the call to...
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Mar 28, 2025
On a Sunday morning in January, 20- and 30-somethings packed the chapel inside Temple Ohabei Shalom, a historic synagogue on the main thoroughfare of a quiet residential...
