Grief is the great equalizer. At some point, if we live long enough, we all experience it. Grief can take many forms — the echo of a loved one’s laugh, a favorite saying or even a silly joke. It’s a ...

Rome has been all gussied up for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year. An extra 10 million pilgrims are forecast, adding to last year's record of 22 million. More than $8 billion has been spent to ...

Ministry leaders point to several challenges that have limited the success of these efforts. Around two in five (42%) say parents don’t have time to prepare. Three in 10 (31%) believe the activities ...

Two gospel singing groups, the Hardeman Boys and Cornerstone Quartet, crossed paths at a youth rally in Bremen, Georgia, in 1989. Three decades later, they shared a stage again. This time they ...

I wanted to try and do some more data work on what drives religious attendance. So, that’s the point of this post — it’s just a journey through me trying to figure out what demographic factors make ...

The fifth season premiere is great, and the best opener to a “The Chosen” season yet. Everything good about the series is ...

While we were recording the podcast this week, I told Lutheran Public Radio listeners that I was well aware that much of the ...

In many countries around the world, a fifth or more of adults have left the religious group in which they were raised.

As I take stock this year, I feel a foreboding of apocalypse. Maybe my own apocalypse, or maybe this country’s, or maybe the ...

Conditions in Afghanistan and India continued to deteriorate and remained poor in Nigeria and Vietnam, USCIRF commissioners ...

Walk through the doors of St. Peter’s Church in the English town of Shipley, in West Yorkshire, and this Anglican house of ...

Many have spent years studying and teaching Japanese anime, exploring how its narratives intertwine with cultural, ...