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June 2021

June 28, 2021

Controversy over Communion in the Catholic Church goes back some 2,000 years

Biden is not the first public figure to whom the Catholic Church wants to deny...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

Faith in numbers: Is church attendance linked to higher rates of coronavirus?

Public health officials and religious conservatives fought over church closures. Data now shows that those...

April 2021

April 22, 2021

Is magic immoral? It played a role in the development of early Christianity

Although many modern people tend to see 'magic' and 'religion' as separate, magic was actually...

April 07, 2021

What can you do with unwanted holy cards and Grandma’s religious statues? Well, that depends

The mass production of religious items such as rosaries and holy cards poses a problem...

April 01, 2021

Why parts of Good Friday worship have been controversial

Prayers and symbols have the power to bind people together, writes a religion scholar, and...

February 2021

February 17, 2021

Faith in numbers: Behind the gender difference of nonreligious Americans

Younger and older American men tend to identify more with being religious 'nones' than women...

January 2021

January 27, 2021

Think US evangelicals are dying out? Well, define evangelicalism …

The number of self-described evangelicals as a share of US population has held steady for...

January 05, 2021

Armenians displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh fear their medieval churches will be destroyed

A peace deal brokered by Russia ended the war on Nov. 9, but the rich...

November 2020

November 10, 2020

Who are patron saints and why do Catholics venerate them?

There could soon be a patron saint of the Internet, the latest in a long...

November 01, 2020

The Black Church has been getting ‘souls to the polls’ for more than 60 years

By David D. Daniels III, McCormick Theological Seminary At Black churches up and down the...

October 2020

October 21, 2020

Beheading in France could bolster president’s claim that Islam is in ‘crisis’ – but so is French secularism

Macron wants to 'build an Islam in France that can be compatible with the Enlightenment.'...

August 2020

August 18, 2020

Hagia Sophia has been converted back into a mosque, but the veiling of its figural icons is not a Muslim tradition

In reconverting Hagia Sophia to a mosque, Turkish officials have emphasized veiling of Christian icons...

August 12, 2020

How the sound of religion has changed in the pandemic

A team of scholars have been documenting the sound of worship for six years. Since...

June 2020

June 12, 2020

Churchgoers aren’t able to lift every voice and sing during the pandemic – here’s why that matters

A choral conductor and scholar of sacred music explains what's missing from church worship with...

June 11, 2020

Are religious communities reviving the revival? In the US, outdoor worship has a long tradition

A pastor leads a prayer at an outdoor Easter service (Photo: AP/Chris O'Meara) Religious communities...