British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of ...

If I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.” So wrote editor and essayist Norman Podhoretz in the early pages ...

Sibley went home and decided to conduct her own ancestral veneration, mixed with tarot and Neopaganism. She said she would ...

Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the insurrection, RNS spoke with Noelle Cook about her new book, ‘The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging.’ ...

The most persistent story about American religion in 2025 was the possibility of revival among Generation Z. It’s a narrative ...

Dr. Worthen, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is the author of “Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History From the Puritans to Donald Trump.” Dec. 23, ...

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate, 400-year Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial ...

ATLANTA — Millennial and Generation Z Christian influencers are increasingly filling a void in American religion, growing audiences across digital platforms by steering young people to biblical ...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom credited the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk Wednesday with helping him to have a deeper understanding of Christianity. Newsom said on “The Ezra ...

This Pew Research Center report summarizes the latest trends in American religion and takes a close look at what is happening with religion among young adults. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center ...

An author of 11 books, including an upcoming title on feminism, says the movement has evolved into a kind of secular "megachurch" with its own doctrines, rituals and moral code — one that she argues ...

NORMAN, OKLAHOMA - DECEMBER 01: A sign at the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and Bud Wilkinson Practice Facility on the campus of Oklahoma University on December 01, 2024 in Norman, Oklahoma ...