This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. When I asked a Jesuit friend who has worked for decades with high school students ...

The UK has elected "the most openly secular House of Commons in history", according to a new study. Two in five MPs taking their seats in Parliament opted not to swear an oath to God, including the ...

Most U.S. adults believe that God gave humans a duty to protect and care for the Earth (66%), and 57% believe that God gave humans the right to use the Earth for humanity’s benefit, according to the ...

Here are four powerful practices if you want to follow these commandments and Christ’s meta-religion of love: ...

The question of whether atheism is more acceptable to God than religion is one that has intrigued philosophers, spiritual seekers, and skeptics for centuries. Many religious traditions condemn atheism ...

Adults who believe in God and are fairly certain who say religion is not at all important Religious composition of adults who believe in God and are fairly certain who say religion is not at all ...

Christianity’s most serious crisis since Commodore Perry in 1853 opened Japan to missionaries and traders this week faced the Church in Japan—a crisis so serious that U. S. missionaries may soon be ...

Burned out. Exhausted. Traumatized. Suffering. Lonely. Angry. Fearful. Grieving. To judge by many religion books on the fall horizon, we're all a mess right now, in desperate need of God's reassurance ...

‘God’s just doing stuff,’ Pastor Dave Brackenridge of Home Church Scotland says, when asked why he thinks there’s been a rise in young people turning to religion. ‘There’s a shift happening across the ...