Benedictine nuns are pictured in 1900 before the completion of St. Anthony's Hospital in Bemidji, Minn. The image appeared in a 2011 documentary titled "Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America," ...
The Supreme Court tied last year on whether charter schools can be religious. New schools in Oklahoma, Tennessee, and ...
George Theoharis, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Education at Syracuse University. He is the author of “The School Leaders Our Children Deserve.” As students and teachers head back to school, ...
Editor's note: This article is part of a series answering your biggest religious questions. Each week, we will answer one submitted faith question. To send a ...
Today I want to talk about this conflict between "religion" and "atheism" that some people get worked up about. The reason I don’t get worked up about it is that I think it’s misguided. It overlooks ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is part of Religion: Got questions?, a series answering your biggest religious questions. Each week, we will answer one submitted faith question. To send a submission visit ...
(RNS) 'I have my own personal rule, which is I never, ever tell people what to believe. And I never, ever tell people they’re wrong,' says Paul M. Sutter, an astrophysicist who fields questions from ...
Imagine a typical day on campus. You are rushing to class when someone sporting a backpack approaches you. Despite the audible groan that is uttered from your lips, the person continues to approach, ...
(RNS) — I’m a quantitative scholar of American religion and politics, so I am used to everyone from religion scholars unused to working with data to anxious parents asking me random questions. Those ...
Based on religious affiliation (or lack thereof), the groups that display the highest levels of religious knowledge on this survey include Jews (who get an average of 18.7 out of 32 questions correct) ...
A major clash over religious expression in public schools goes before the U.S. Supreme Court next week, with implications for school districts, educators, and students, as well as the debate over ...
Today I want to talk about this conflict between "religion" and "atheism" that some people get worked up about. The reason I don’t get worked up about it is that I think it’s misguided. It overlooks ...