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?

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

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, ...

Discussions about Islam and Muslims were part of the United States’ history since the the country’s founding. America’s ...

Across religious groups, majorities see America’s openness to others as essential to national identity. But views on rising ...

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

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

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

From the Founding Fathers and the crusade for independence to the Monroe Doctrine, through World Wars I and II and the decades-long Cold War campaign against “godless Communism,” this coruscating ...

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a series of actions Wednesday to roll back landmark environmental ...

Christians, on average, are older than people in other religious groups. Around half of young adults in their early 20s ...

Across the street from the Nebraska State Capitol, a monument to the Ten Commandments stands on the sidewalk outside of St.