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Dear friends and colleagues on the godbeat: You’ve heard it before: liberal churches are dying because they’re too liberal. It’s been a favorite trope on the right for decades, going back at least to…

The terrain is indeed shifting as the latest Pew survey results suggest, but it’s not a simple matter of secularization or non-affiliation. My own working assumption is that many of those who will no…

Now that the sexual abuse allegations against Josh Duggar have resurfaced and made the news, many people are inquiring whether the Duggars’ belief system perpetuates sexual abuse. In light of other…

In the cluster of comment on the recently released report on the changing American religious landscape from the Pew Research Center, we have seen two basic story lines: the U.S. is “less Christian”…

Last week, dozens of senior Buddhist teachers and leaders converged on Washington, D.C. for an historic first meeting with U.S. government leaders. The gathering offered the assembled a chance to…

Cubit co-editor Andrew Aghapour collaborates with Ultra-Spiritual JP Sears on his latest video to discuss science, religion, and why journalists will be replaced by robots.

Polls are good, but a crystal ball might be better.

Dozens and dozens of studies send a clear signal that that personal relationship with God is 80% protective against risky sex in girls.

Weeks after her social media fail, Lohan is spotted with a Qur’an.

Last November, I returned to my family’s farm in New Hampshire to celebrate Thanksgiving and help build a “sugar shack” with my brother. The “shack” was to be a small wooden structure that would house…