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Executives are seeking input from various faith leaders, acknowledging that moral questions about AI can't be answered in labs alone.

The archbishop claimed the White House did not ask permission before posting photos and video of a private prayer

Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret about agreeing to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed photo of them praying with President Trump.

ELLSWORTH, Kansas — David Rankin has never been one for putting up campaign lawn signs. As a lifelong Republican in a town of 3,000 — where Donald Trump has won by 50-point margins since 2016 — he’s never seen a reason to put a candidate’s name in his yard. But recently, Rankin and his wife […]

Sarah Drew reveals how meeting husband Pete Lanfer at a Christian youth camp nearly 30 years ago gave her a grounding force against Hollywood's chaos.

Country singer Jessie James Decker reveals her family's game day food traditions, favorite recipes and how Catholic faith shapes life around the dinner table.

We have made coexistence sound far more complicated than it needs to be. We organize panels about it, argue over who qualifies to speak about it, and ask people to defend their decision to reach across a religious or cultural divide. Meanwhile, a Muslim baker learned to make babka from a Jewish woman and sent […]

When finished, the $100 million project should stand for 1,000 years.

As tech companies race to build the most powerful artificial intelligence, some are also asking how to teach a chatbot right from wrong. Their answer? Religion.

We hurt one another, we fail one another, but we still have to figure out how to live with one another.

Nehemiah Toles walked away from top college baseball offers and MLB scouts after hearing God's voice in a hotel room following a championship game.

The midterm elections on November 3 are currently dominating national media coverage. Within that coverage, several religious strands have emerged. Whether it’s Rev. Adam Hamilton running for Senate in Kansas, seminarian James Talarico running for Senate in Texas, Hindu Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio, or Muslim Abdul El-Sayed running for Senate in Michigan, religion is unavoidably ...

Can a state impose its views on religious schools? The Supreme Court will decide.

This is the sort of animus to religion that led to defeats in Fulton and Masterpiece Cakeshop.

For all the buzz around a ‘Catholic century,’ evangelicalism is the denomination best placed to thrive in contemporary America. Ross Douthat has joined The Free Press as a weekly columnist, and we couldn’t be more thrilled. To celebrate his arrival, we’re running a flash sale for a limited time only. Read his writing every Thursday for 20 percent off an annual subscription. You’ll also get full access to everything we have on offer, from our columnists—Douglas Murray, Abigail Shrier, Niall Ferguson, to name just a few—to our podcasts, videos, events, and so much more. There’s no better time to subscribe. We hope you’ll join us. —The Editors Of all the predictions Alexis de Tocqueville made while surveying the youthful United States, one of the boldest concerned religion. Notwithstanding Protestantism’s apparent American dominance, the Frenchman prophesied that Roman Catholicism would be the long-term victor in a democratic age. “Our posterity will tend more and more to a single division into two parts,” he wrote in Democracy in America, with “some relinquishing Christianity entirely, and others returning to the bosom of the Church of Rome.” The last few years have given that prediction new life. From the spate of traditionalist-inclined college converts to the heretofore secular humanists who have thrilled to Pope Leo XIV’s critique of artificial intelligence, it often feels like Catholicism is the strongest religious alternative to post-Christian tribalism, nihilism, and transhumanism. Writing for the Catholic magazine Commonweal, Wesleyan University’s Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, himself a non-Catholic, envisions “a Catholic century,” in which the church’s thought becomes a “default option” for people seeking the common good amid liberalism’s crisis and AI-driven dehumanization. As a Catholic I have a similar reading of the intellectual situation. But it’s also essential to look beyond the intelligentsia to assess the health and future of religion. And in the wider culture, the form of Christianity that’s most adapted to late-modern America is clearly not the Church of Rome. It’s evangelical Protestantism. The vibes of a Catholic moment are real enough, but evangelicalism’s resilience is our era’s more fundamental fact.

The Michigan Democrat’s faith is at the center of one of the most important Senate races.

Former President Bill Clinton went to church in South Florida Tuesday night to scold Americans for being unkind to Muslims, and he backed up his sermon with a “Quran verse” that isn’t in the Quran. “I’m tired of people denigrating Muslims for being Muslims,” the 80-year-old ex-president told a crowd at the Koinonia Worship Center ...

Published four months after her death, the poet’s reflections on mortality are both agonising and profoundly life-affirming There are no atheists in foxholes, goes the saying, and indeed social scientists and evolutionary biologists have argued that the experience of war or conflict drives religious belief; in 2019, Joseph Henrich and others surveyed almost 2,000 people in three post-conflict societies – Uganda, Sierra Leone and Tajikistan – and concluded that their experience of conflict had prompted them to participate in Christian and Muslim rituals and groups. Atheism, it seems, may be as fragile as faith. “No matter how attached you are to your own rational worldview, your rationality won’t survive long under the threat of imminent death,” writes the former Dutch poet laureate Lieke Marsman in her book On Another Planet They Can Save Me. Part scream, part song, it charts the gradual dissolution of her own rational assumptions, which govern everything from her views on God to extra­terrestrial life. It is a brilliant, playful, layered and humane plea for openness and hope in the face of her own foxhole of intolerable suffering. Continue reading...