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 ...

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 ...

Letter writers share thoughts on religion in politics based on our founding documents, and on current state of freedom in ...

EXCLUSIVE: When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begin? That’s the key question in Oscar-nominated filmmaker Petra Costa ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The survey, conducted by Tui Stiftung, found that only 57 per cent of young Europeans prefer democracy to other forms of ...

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.