Moore played an early role in the making of American Christianity. At the time of the country’s founding, the church was experiencing an ebb tide, as the rejection of organized religion became more ...

The Senate hopeful from Texas made the statement on a podcast in 2021.

Early on in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” the first of three autobiographies Douglass wrote over his lifetime, he recounts what happened—or, perhaps more accurately, what didn’t ...

As I was reading the final papers submitted by the students in the course I teach on world religion, I noticed a common theme when it comes to their appreciation for religion in general, and for ...

Christianity is the world’s largest religion, with an estimated 2.4 billion followers, or nearly one-third of the world’s total population. But in Japan, Christians are a tiny minority. Unlike in ...

The basic freedoms and human rights we enjoy as Americans do not require a cultural Christian majority. A recent Pew Research report suggested that American Christians could become a minority of the ...

People find it hard to believe that Christianity had such an inauspicious beginning in A.D. 33 with the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. He had only a handful of followers — many of them poor ...

Out of four scenarios forecasted by Pew, three show Christians dropping below 50% of the U.S. population by 2070. In the most plausible scenario, per Pew, the non-religious population makes up 48% of ...