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.

I recently served as president of my church council. Any reader who has served on any church leadership committee will know what this means: long meetings that cut into evening family time; fielding ...

A recent proposed settlement in a federal court case out of Texas that would change how churches intersect with politics has become what supporters call restoring free speech rights and opponents call ...

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Rumen Radev has drawn political attention after comparing the roles of the Bulgarian Patriarch and Russia’s Patriarch Kirill, in remarks that sparked a broader debate about ...

It’s one of the great paradoxes of our time. Many conservative pastors courageously preach a biblical worldview from their pulpits — defending life, marriage, and religious freedom — yet when it comes ...

It has been a year since the arrest and extradition of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He is charged with crimes against humanity, ...

A Lutheran pastor identifies five false teachings that threaten to corrupt the church’s public witness. If we can learn anything from the history of Christian heresies, it is that they never truly ...

SEOUL, July 25 (UPI) --South Korean prosecutors are expanding their investigation into the Unification Church, citing potential violations of political funding and anti-corruption laws. The inquiry ...

“What we’re fighting for is democracy,” Texas state Rep. Barbara Gervin-Hawkins said Sunday. She didn’t say this at a news conference or in a committee hearing or a TV interview. She spoke the words ...

My Christmas homily began by recounting how churches in the Boston and Chicago areas adjusted their outdoor Nativity creches by adorning them with ICE symbols. Then I described a modern Nativity ...