I spent two months this summer as a Templeton Foundation journalism fellow in science and religion, attending Cambridge University seminars on various aspects of the dialogue, historical and contemporary, between science and religion. It was surprising for me to discover...
"The role of reporters, bloggers and pundits shouldn't be to proclaim the death of religion, (after all wouldn't that put some of them out of a job?) but rather to spot what new forms American religion takes next." -- Andrea...
New, Earth Day findings from the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life: Evangelical Christians are far less likely than Americans as a whole to believe the evidence of global warming. This is entirely unsurprising, I guess...
Texas Faith is our weekly discussion of matters of religion, politics, and culture. Read about our panel here. Our question this week spins off of a couple fo recent intersections of faith and politics involving President Barack Obama. At a...
"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." -- The Dalai Lama...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "For atheists, science and reason are god. Of course this god provides no purpose ... no meaning ... no value ... nothing ..." -- "Mike Ravens" "I see the 'Jesus fish' on lots...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "High Five to the judges who ruled in this case and all those who fought against the couple who brought it to court!!" -- "Leslie," on the federal appellate court decision upholding Texas'...
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has published an analysis challenging the idea that hard times cause people to go to church more....
GOP chairman Michael Steele gave an extremely wide-ranging interview to GQ. It's a Q&A transcript and very hard for me to find a nugget that carries the sense of it. He talks about his prayers, his sense of what it...
People say they don't get Twitter. OK. But it's one way to discover priceless gems like this:...
George Barna is a Christian evangelical pollster who doesn't let his personal religious biases affect the methodology of his polling. Earlier today I'd posted about a new huge national survey about religion in America that indicates that explicit religiosity is...
According to a study sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, Catholics and Protestants are more likely to change faiths than are Jews. Here's the story, from Nicole Neroulias of Religion News Service. And if anyone wants the full study, here's...
The Academy Awards will be presented Sunday. Religionlink, a resource for religion writers, notes that several nominated movies have themes that deal with religion, spirituality and faith. There's the overtly religious Doubt, and the "life is beautiful" fantasy, The Curious...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "Godless states have killed many, many times more people than all of the religious wars combined. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot? They all had godless regimes. It's really a shame when people with...
The Rev. Henry G. Brinton, a Presbyterian pastor from Fairfax, Va., has a commentary in this morning's USA Today in which he argues that science and religion not only can co-exist, but do. "Science," he writes, "answers the questions of...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "It seems a majority believe in the new religion of 'man-made global warming.' If so, then a majority do not believe in God, as defined by Christians, Jews, and Muslims. God is omnipotent,...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "Would you mind telling us, Bruce, what was 'clever' in picturing Khomeini side-by-side with George Wallace? Or in your tacit equivocation of the totalitarian political system/religion of Islam with Christianity? Come on, Bruce....
Very careful readers may recall that I was singled out for chastisement a couple of weeks ago by NewsBusters.org, a Web site that fancies its mission as "documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias." My sin then? Having the...
Writing tongue-in-cheek (I think), journalism prof Stephen Bates says in Slate that he has the solution to the woes of the newspaper industry: The press should declare itself to be a religion. "The tax benefits, as the accountants say, would...
According to the Gallup organization, the "Heart of Dixie" and the Islamic republic rank about equally high in the percentage of their populations that regard religion as important. Alabama was second among U.S. states (behind Mississippi), with 82 percent of...
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