A few years ago, I got into an argument with a friend about religion. The question we tussled over: Would America be better off without Christianity?

My generation, millennials, has been blamed for ruining so much: cloth napkins, traditional marriage, American cheese. But in ...

Newsweek's map, below, shows where the change is happening, comparing the oldest available data—from 2007 or in some cases 2014—from Pew's Religious Landscape Study and its most recent, from 2023-24, ...

About 100 million people in the U.S. say they have no religious faith, but a new survey paints a more complicated picture.

“Covenantal thinking created an American national identity,” said Smith. He emphasized that the covenant ties together a ...

A Pew Research report observed that while America's population of Christians has declined since 2007, the freefall appears to have stopped across multiple denominations.

Over the last 50 years, the left has directed two opposing criticisms at Christian conservatives. In the late 1970s and 1980s ...

Paul Solman talks with author Robert Putnam about his new book "American Grace," which delves into the role of religion in the United States.

But this era of religion and politics in America is over, and Trump ended it. He has confounded the question of “friendliness ...

Each attack on any religious organization for efforts to follow scriptural teachings of compassionate love constitutes an ...

University of Chicago professor Martin Marty was convinced that totalitarianism could be avoided if we worked to build pluralism.

A former Lutheran pastor, Martin Marty rose to become one of the country’s preeminent historians and interpreters of religion ...