"Religion" Blogs & Blog Posts

The chart above is from a recent Gallup Poll. It shows that christianity in the United States has suffered a sharp decline in the last few decades. In 1955, about 95% of the population claimed to be christian. By 2014-17, only about 69% claim to be c...

Some people like to think the United States is a christian country. While it's true that a substantial majority of Americans claim to be christians, no one branch of christianity (evangelicals, catholics, mainstream protestants, etc.) makes up anywhe...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized thousands of Americans in an anti-poverty effort popularly known as the Poor People’s Campaign, a group of progressive...

This time it was not Liberal politicians in federal government but Victorian Liberals on the state opposition benches who were behaving badly.......The Age, 30 March 2018:The Victorian opposition has broken a promise and reneged on long-standing parl...

The congregation of Brazil's São Geraldo Magela church seemed delighted as a drone outfitted with a monstrance containing the eucharist floats up the aisle to their priest at the altar. Once the video was posted to Facebook though, some devout Catho...

While people around the world were inspired by the resilience, fearlessness and savvy of the students who created a national gun-control movement in the wake of the Parkland shooting, American right-wing leaders looked at these kids and saw evidence...

The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 March 2018:Dozens of federal Liberal MPs have reportedly signed a petition calling for a 25 per cent funding increase for the controversial National Schools Chaplaincy Program. Whether the budget can afford the fundi...