(The Conversation) — Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.

The four debaters were tasked to defend or oppose the need for organized religion in society, and argued whether individuals ...

The word “notwithstanding” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the ongoing public debate over whether West Virginia’s religious freedom act applies to school vaccination laws. Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

In the midst of heated debates about female pastors and the morality of in vitro fertilization, the national Southern Baptist Convention recently passed a religious liberty resolution that — in terms ...

President Donald Trump, speaking to a sprawling crowd at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday (Feb. 5), returned to his personal tradition of using the bipartisan convening as an ...

A showdown may be coming on the meaning of religious freedom, and LGBT advocates fear anti-discrimination protections could be weakened as a result. In Religious Freedom Debate, 2 American Values ...

A man’s viral rant questioning church attendance and religion sparks heated debate online about faith and spirituality.

(The Conversation) — The phrase ‘separation of church and state’ dates back to a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist congregation. One of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the Texas law ...

Supporters of both major U.S. political parties tend to claim their presidential candidate is the "real" Christian or the "better" Christian or just the "true" Christian. For a majority of white ...