Watch the trailer for 'Apocalypse in the Tropics,' which exposes the rise of Christian nationalism in Brazil, and by ...

Columnist Andrew Silow-Carroll discusses a new book, “Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy,” by Jonathan Rauch, a gay Jewish atheist who says that conservative ...

The New York Times Opinion columnist David French, a lifelong evangelical, speaks to Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an atheist, about the role of Christianity in ...

Our democracy envisions a government of the people, by the people and for the people – all the people. The First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution establish freedom of religion ...

Christianity, he writes, is the “load-bearing wall” holding up our democracy. But the forces of secular morality and politics have proved damaging to the church, eroding its influence and ...

If Christians can do the work of rediscovering and elevating those elements of the Christian faith which uphold our democracy and which uphold the teachings of Christ, I can’t see that any ...

Hoping that Christianity alone, rather than religion at large, can stimulate better democracy is naive and dangerous. In an increasingly interconnected world, only those religions (including, but ...

At a Sept. 19-20 summit at Georgetown University in Washington, interfaith leaders discussed the importance of democracy and unveiled a new statement about a Christian basis for defending it.

Opinion: Christian nationalism is a threat to our democracy. We must overcome it. The challenge for Christians today is to use our power, our voices and our courage to empower our communities to ...

This Christianity is a load-bearing wall in our democracy, and to the extent that we help dismantle it, we’ve got to stop.’” ...

This melding of different religious, political and social beliefs, ideas and ways of life is a core strength of our democracy. By contrast, white Christian nationalists view it is a threat.