Protestant churches’ growth in Latin America gets lots of attention, but another important shift is happening, too: people ...

Almost all the scriptures were written by men. As humans have a desire to live forever, religion provides attractive offers of life after death. Humans invented God, the superhuman, to answer all the ...

Dictionary definitions of God include: the supreme or ultimate reality; perfect in goodness, power, wisdom; who is worshipped as creator and ruler of the universe; the perfect and all-powerful spirit ...

Analysis of our polls and other data shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. Read more about ...

In many countries around the world, a fifth or more of all adults have left the religious group in which they were raised. Christianity and Buddhism have experienced especially large losses from this ...

Co-authored with Dr. Ken Baskin. Few things are more important to human psychology writ large than religion. But what does this concept really mean? The more deeply we investigate it, the odder ...

In an era when many faithful lament theological confusion and fear the watering down of Christianity, Pope Francis did little in recent days to assuage any consternation. In fact, the pontiff tossed ...

A sensitive passage in the final declaration of the congress that brought Pope Francis to Kazakhstan Sept. 13–15 appears to have been changed after it found the approval of attendants. Initially, ...

The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...

My parents ate health food in my youth, in the days before Whole Foods was everywhere, when seeking out even a veggie burger could require entering a subculture as exotic as any obscure religious sect ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I am going to intertwine two gargantuan ...