From the abolition of slavery to civil rights, religion has driven America's great moral advances. As the nation celebrates ...

THE old humanity,” writes an historian of Islam, “had been killed by the new religion.” This is what always happens. True morality, the adepts of each religion tell us, is dependent on their ...

Many religious folks argue that while science can explain much of the natural world, some issues are simply outside of the scientific realm, the classic example of which would be morality. The late ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As inspired as the Constitution is, the Founding Fathers repeatedly declared that it would only be effective in preserving freedom ...

Religious intelligence is based on two obscure ingredients, one of which is spirituality, a religious feeling that does not ...

As organized religion declines, the human instinct for ritual, purpose, and belonging is quietly finding new places to live.

In the intellectual war between atheists and theists, the argument from morality is one of the sharpest weapons from the theistic side. It’s an interesting line of attack against atheism. How can we ...

RELIGION stepped into the American scene wearing the homely dress of a prophet of righteousness. The Puritans were narrow, says Lowell, ‘as the sword of righteousness is narrow.’ Religion and morality ...

Growing up as a Christian, I frequently heard from other churchgoers how fortunate we were to live in a Christian nation.

In an interesting piece about the independence of morality and religion, my fellow Psychology Today blogger Gad Saad rightly reports that many religious people believe that morality is an example of ...

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One of 36 Jesuits who will be ordained in the Roman Catholic priesthood at New York’s Fordham University next week is Avery R. Dulles, 37, youngest son of Presbyterian John Foster Dulles, U.S.