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“The central problem interfaith work seeks to solve is this: how are all of us, with our deep differences, to share a nation and a world together? In my view, that is primarily a question of civic space, not political ideology.”

Controversial Ugandan pastor doesn’t understand why ties were severed.

The third iteration of the National Congregations Study, led by Mark Chaves and Shawna Anderson, was released last week and picked up on by the New York Times yesterday. It’s a fairly large study…

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), five men on the Supreme Court told us this morning in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., is broad enough to protect the religious exercise rights of a…

When I began attending Mars Hill Church in 2006, its main facility in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood was headquarters and clubhouse—a 20,000 square foot renovated hardware warehouse seating over a…

Either way, Mississippi results suggest his favorability gap is closing.

The recent arrival of ISIS in the international spotlight has demonstrated once again that there is no easy way to talk about religious extremism and the martyrs, real or imagined, that it produces…

Speak for yourself, Chris.

Recent efforts to reach a compromise between evangelicals and liberals have managed to avoid the discussion of abortion altogether. The fact remains: according to many clergy representing millions of Americans of all faiths and denominations, the moral reality of women’s lives is that sometimes abortion is the best moral choice.

The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, once a darling of groups seeking “common ground” on gay and reproductive rights, who once described the GOP as xenophobi[c], nativis[t], and quasi-racist, is giving the benediction at this week’s Republican Convention.