Yonat Shimron

But Harris, the 55-year-old junior senator from California, has other advantages in the 2020 presidential race. She embodies the future of American religion

For the past 25 years, the number of Americans claiming no religion has steadily ballooned as more and more people quit church, synagogue or mosque and openly acknowledged being a "none."

Many Baptist churches — Alabama’s largest denomination — do good works around the city. But Baptist Church of the Covenant is different. As the nation focuses on white evangelicals, who make up the core of support for Republican Roy Moore in his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Tuesday’s (Dec. 12) special election, this church presents an alternative vision of Christian faithfulness.

To many onlookers, evangelical support for Roy Moore is simply a matter of politics.

After the mass shooting at First Baptist Church, a command center was needed to help investigators, disaster relief teams and families of the dead.

A new survey of U.S. Jews offers a breakdown of the Jewish vote in favor of President Trump and suggests those divisions — among the major streams of Judaism — remain fairly constant nine months later.

Published in May by researchers from Vanderbilt University, the study found that middle-aged adults who attended religious services at least once in the past year were half as likely to die prematurely as those who didn’t.