The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a presidential run. Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder and leader of the Church of ...

Area studies, the interdisciplinary study of region-specific knowledge, is under threat in the United States. Some area studies programs are facing immediate dismantling by red-state legislatures.

One of psychologist James Dobson’s more famous books, “The Strong-Willed Child,” advocated hitting children as punishment. Dobson, the 89-year-old founder of Focus on the Family, who died Thursday, ...

36% of Ohio adults report a current religious identity different from their childhood faith. Christianity has experienced the most significant losses in Ohio due to religious switching. As Ohioans ...

As a wordsmith who labored over each paragraph, sentence and phrase, historian and writer Jan Shipps would be delighted to see her friends, colleagues and admirers mining their mental thesaurus for ...

The share of Americans who identify as Christian continues to fall across the U.S, with the exception of two states, a Newsweek map shows. However, the decline appears to be leveling out, as younger ...

According to the 2024 Religious Landscape Study, 62% of U.S. adults describe themselves as Christians – a decline from the 78% who self-reported as such during the 2007 version of the same survey.

The 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) and other Pew Research Center polling find that the Christian share of the population, after years of decline, has been relatively stable since 2019. And ...

Researchers expect further declines in Christianity, but some young-adult ministers see revival brewing. Tre’ Giles heard a lot about different spiritualities from young people in Portland, Oregon.

Young people contributed to the shift. “If you’re a young white male these days and you think of yourself as conservative, then being religious is a part of that.” By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham covers ...

New Religious Landscape Study from Pew Research Center found 62% of U.S. adults identify as Christian, 29% are religiously unaffiliated, often called “nones,” and 7% identify with other religions.

Social media posts shared a Daily Mail headline, opens new tab from 2018 reporting on a proposal to prohibit faith-based "free schools", which get public funding but operate independently. However, ...