The role of religion in America’s founding is more controversial today than ever. The riot at the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 unleashed a flood of acrimony toward Christian nationalists. Critics ...

A Wisconsin-based organization of atheists and agnostics is taking a Pennsylvania state House’s declaration to make 2012 the “Year of the Bible” to court, saying it violates the constitutionally ...

A full page ad in Sunday’s New York Times, signed by 21 religious figures, was styled as a “Declaration of Dependence Upon God and His Holy Bible.” Sen. Jason Rapert, who’s gone full-time into the ...

Ultimately, that faith and trust resulted in a miraculous outcome. But it took eight grueling years of war that started in April 1775 and ended on September 3, 1783, when the Treaty of Paris was ...

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

Why all the dislike of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (“Preserve and protect U.S. Constitution from all enemies,” Web, July 23)? Just think, without that creator-endowed “Life,” told of in the ...

To this list of intellectual influences, one must add the Bible — both the Hebraic and Christian biblical traditions. As the eminent scholar Martin E. Marty (a native of West Point, Nebraska) remarked ...

The Declaration of Independence is really a list of grievances against the crown, and some of their meanings are hard to decipher. NPR's Andrea Seabrook speaks with MIT history professor Pauline Maier ...