Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part letter to the editor focusing on the theory of religion. I am ambivalent about writing this article, but I am looking for answers. I was raised in a good ...

Opinion Columnist. This essay is adapted from the forthcoming book “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.” My parents ate health food in my youth, in the days before Whole Foods was everywhere, ...

There’s something very strange about religion. There have been recent appalling acts of terrorism, allegedly carried out in the name of religion. These attacks emphasise the recent findings of the ...

Although this isn’t a particular religion, but rather a group of religions, we decided to feature it on our list of most popular religions in the world since there are no specific size data for any of ...

“People who have not awakened to the mind live enslaved by the environment; they dream not only when they sleep, but even with their eyes open they are living in a dream.” — Ku San Sunim Just as there ...

Q: Being a religious spiritualist and studying many types of religions, how does one know what is real and what is not? I grew up Lutheran and heard how we were the religion, when we had a Catholic ...

Beginning with the 4th of July celebrations last Friday, Americans commenced a year-long commemoration and celebration in anticipation of our Bisesquicentennial (the 250th anniversary of the ...

“The idea of the Chosen People was justifiable religious doctrine in ancient Judaism,” but “today it is not merely untenable, but also detrimental to a normal adjustment of the Jew to his environment, ...

Moral attitudes justifying economic inequality are often embedded within conservative religion and politics in the United States, even as traditional Christian values assert the need for compassion ...