Religious beliefs have been woven into the fabric of human existence for millennia, shaping cultures and guiding personal choices with both wisdom and, at times, misguided certainty. Yet, as the world ...

Majorities say religious texts should not shape their national laws. People are about as likely, or slightly more likely, to say that the will of the people should win out over religious texts if the ...

Sacred texts mean vary amongst religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and other times not.

The Christian right has been emboldened by the Trump administration. Nearly every day, there is a headline highlighting the ...

“We are now adopting the Bluebonnet phonics component. So the reading is split into skills and knowledge. Skills is the ...

People were already treating secular text as sacred in really creative and beautiful and radical ways. Vanessa Zoltan welcomes an audience for an event about treating romance novels as sacred text.

The powers that burn sacred texts understand that the violence is tantamount to violence against those to whom the texts belong, and is often prelude to it.

This befuddled me. For a minute I thought, perhaps, Moms for Liberty had been in the bookstore and influenced the religious texts chosen and how they were displayed.

Walters did not respond to a request for comment. In both states, officials said the religious texts are important to understanding the birth of American government.

As we confront the realities of climate change, the flood narratives in religious texts offer more than just warnings of destruction—they offer a vision of renewal and redemption.