This article was first published in the State of Faith newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Monday night. Earlier this year, I spoke with a college class about the ...

ChatGPT is all the rage. It even drives some people into a rage. It does some remarkable things, it does some outrageous things, it does some absurd things. Most things it does badly, such as tell you ...

When is yoga religious, and when is it… not religious enough? In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll find out why these frameworks we call “religions” are so hard to define, and why our ...

Last weekend, pastor Robert Jeffress found himself in political quicksand when he called Mormonism a “cult.” Scholars of Mormonism along with evangelicals and progressive Christians responded that ...

Defining religion isn’t as simple as it seems. Is it belief in God, a system of rituals, or a cultural tradition? Scholars have debated this for centuries, offering competing definitions from ...

The DeSantis administration, in encouraging introduction of religious chaplains into Florida’s public schools, has published a definition of “religion” that appears to exclude world faiths with ...

Last week’s Pew survey shows that Americans are increasingly becoming more spiritual than religious. In fact, 41% of adults grew more spiritual, compared with 24% who grew more religious over their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bible on a school desk in a classroom. A Bible on a school desk in a classroom. A new Florida law encouraging schools to add ...