Religion

Robert P. Jones

Among the tidbits--27: Percentage of Americans who believe God plays a role in outcomes of sporting events

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

Jesus, Christians believe, is God-with-us. Thus, when someone insists Jesus was “white,” the theological implication is that God is white. In fact, doesn’t God, in our cultural stereotype, look a lot like Santa? Old white man with a long white beard?

Michelle Boorstein and Scott Clement

U.S. Catholics are happier with their church and their pope than they’ve been with either in at least a decade.

Anthony Stevens Arroyo

We Catholics have been fighting among ourselves since St. Paul.

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

Thank you, Nelson Mandela, for all you did to show us what principled leadership, in concert with global networks of non-violent direct action, can accomplish.

Desmond Tutu

Was Mandela a saint? Not if a saint is entirely flawless. I believe he was saintly because he inspired others powerfully and revealed in his character, transparently, many of God’s attributes of goodness: compassion, concern for others, desire for peace, forgiveness and reconciliation.

Sally Quinn

In ‘My Promised Land,’ writer Ari Shavit reflects on the Jewish state’s past, present and future

Mark Driscoll

There is growing vocal contempt of parenthood and to thinking of women by the debased term “breeders.” This isn’t God’s vision of motherhood.

Elaine Woo

Mr. Crouch founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world’s largest Christian television system.

Valerie Strauss

A grant to a Catholic education organization for Common Core implementation has sparked criticism from other Catholics.

David Mason

A Mormon bishop pretends to be homeless in order to teach his congregants a lesson.

Gabriel Salguero

We will fast during Advent because we believe the words of Scripture that “prayer availeth much.”

Edwina Rogers

The American family is changing as more of us intermarry with people of other faiths and ethnicities, and same-sex couples take their vows in a growing number of states.

Reza Aslan

Limbaugh is right. Somebody did get to Pope Francis. It was Jesus.

Brad Hirschfield

The Hanukkah-Thanksgiving mash up reminds us how to live happier, bolder and more successful lives. Want a slice of that good life? Here’s how