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Reading the same piece by Robert Jones in the Atlantic that I wrote about in my post Tuesday, about dwindling numbers of white evangelicals in the South, Religion News Service’s Tobin Grant, a…

A day after headlines heralding Americans’ desire for more religion in politics and public life, the citizenry’s wish has been granted. A quick scan of national newspapers shows many religious and…

A new poll out today from the Pew Research Center finds an increasing number of Americans in favor of injecting religion into electoral politics, a growing perception that the Obama administration is…

It all begins with “survey says….” But it doesn’t end there.

A full third of Jewish Americans think that followers of Jesus Christ can also be Jews, though theologically speaking, Jesus isn’t messiah material for religious Jews. So what gives?

The author of Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family argues that children brought up with two religions aren’t necessarily less committed or confused.

Thanksgivukkah is a way of being out, loud, and proud— We’re here! We’re Jewish! We eat turkey AND latkes!—but can Jews ever compete with the juggernaut of Christmas?

A new analysis of decades of studies concludes that religious people tend to be less intelligent, while a new book by Eastern Orthodox intellectual David Bentley Hart suggests that “the absolutely convinced atheist” is not an uncompromising intellectual, but rather “someone who has failed to notice something very obvious.”

Anatomy of a cross-cultural study.

But atheists not so much.