A relatively obscure 16th century document, the Magdeburg Confession, is getting attention in far-right circles. Here's the story.

An expert explains how we got to the Christmas celebrations of today after the Puritans banned them, as well as other holiday history.

In a poll, 44% of parents said that teens shouldn't get to choose whether or not to attend holiday religious services until they're 18.

Prompting Christians to think of their belief in God's unconditional love reduces the pull of self-improvement purchases, research finds.

Girls raised by Jewish parents are more likely to graduate college than girls with a non-Jewish upbringing, researchers report.

In this interview, an immigration policy scholar answers questions about Europe's relatively warm reception of Ukrainian refugees.

Two-thirds of Muslims, half of Jews, and more than a third of evangelical Protestant Christians experience workplace discrimination, research finds.

To understand the difference between shame now and shame in the Bible, an expert points to the stories of Tamar and Job.

Was the Queen of Sheba really Black? That description doesn't come from the Bible, research finds, but from an Ethiopian Christian text, the "Kebra Nagast."

Messages that worked to convince white evangelicals to get the COVID-19 before the shots were available actually stopped working once they came out.