From time immemorial, even at a very primitive level of human development, people understood that there are extremely powerful forces controlling everything in the world around them. And so they ...

King's publisher Hard Case Crime features splashy covers that harken back to the era of old pulp fiction paperbacks. Above is one of the two covers designed for Joyland. For 20 years, Stephen King has ...

Nearly one in three Americans now identify as religious “nones,” and new research from University of Nebraska–Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel suggests that this fast‑growing group is far more ...

Religious beliefs are remarkably various. But sometimes it can seem that there is only one way to be an atheist: asserting, on the basis of reasoned argument, that belief in God is irrational. The ...

Dr. Miroslav Volf of Yale Divinity School says yes. "I think it is possible to be moral and not believe in God,” Volf told me. “I say that as a Christian and Christian theologian. I know a lot of ...

When Catholics recite the creed during Sunday Mass, they state that they “believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.” But a new survey suggests that “one God” might not ...

And this, you will agree, is real, yet not precise, not systematic. All attempts to express this accurately, to confine it within a definition, fall short, by far, of the felt reality. Yet probably no ...

Most U.S. adults now say it is not necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values (56%), up from about half (49%) who expressed this view in 2011. This increase reflects the continued ...

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo recently declared: "Our rights do not come from God." Then this week, Sen. Ted Cruz's assertion that "our rights don't come from man, they come from God Almighty" came under ...