The flashlight in my hand was pointed at the damp branches ahead of me as I watched them sway to the cool whims of Brother Wind. “This is stupid,” I thought to myself. An instructor had woken me up ...

Nearly half of the countries in the world have an official religion, have a preferred faith or are hostile to religious institutions, Pew Research Center research finds. Islam is the most common ...

Eric Yoffie is a writer and lecturer and was President of the Union for Reform Judaism from 1996 to 2012. Rabbi Yoffie's writings on American religion, interreligious dialogue and Israel and the ...

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means ...

Today in a 647-word editorial the New York Times has strikingly exemplified the West’s misunderstanding of and impotent response to the threat posed to it by a resurgent, expansionist Islam: Each new ...

On _____, a group of _____ heavily armed, black-clad men burst into a _____ in _____, opening fire and killing a total of _____ people. The attackers were filmed ...

(RNS) — In a barbed valedictory, my colleague Tom Reese portrays the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI as the quintessential German professor, a brilliant theologian “who was not interested in listening ...