A few weeks ago here on the blog, I wrote about why our American government keeps track of religious liberty in other countries and puts pressure on violators of religious freedom. With that as ...

Yes, of course I'm glad that a few days ago the United Methodist Church decided to change its rules to allow the ordination of otherwise-qualified LGBTQ+ people to be clergy. It should have happened ...

Keeping track of a process I sometimes think of as the Europeanization of American churches can be pretty disheartening. The trend in membership -- particularly of congregations that are part of ...

One of the intriguing things that has happened in the United States in recent decades has been the changing religious landscape. Protestants, for instance, who used to make up nearly 80 percent of the ...

Just how many species of animals are there on the globe? It's a question I asked myself after visiting the Alaska SeaLife ...

Almost every tour guide here who has spoken about totem poles has emphasized that they are in some way spiritual but are not ...

Different religions have different views about what scripture is. In fact, often there are debates within a single religion ...

What's the worst that you could say about, say, love. Or kindness. Or sympathy. Or generosity. I'll wait. It turns out that ...

Given how many books I read, even I find it surprising to tell you that Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America, by Joel Edward Goza is easily one of the most important books I've read ...

Although I'm often disappointed in the religious literacy of many Americans, I'm only occasionally shocked, gob-smacked, startled by evidence of religious ignorance and bigotry coming from elected ...

If Karleton Douglas Beye Fyfe -- a name almost big enough to hold his 6-5 frame and winsome personality -- had died in, say, a car wreck or of cancer at age 31, it would have been a personal disaster ...

When I grew up in a small Northern Illinois town in the 1950s and early '60s, children like me learned almost nothing about homosexuality except, eventually, to make fun of people we suspected were, ...