Beliefs

With 20/20 hindsight, one gets to piece together markers on the highway. For me at 11 years old, I didn’t understand my fixation with Aaron Carter singing “I want Candy.”

STANFORD, Calif. (RNS) American Atheists plans to launch the first-ever atheism-only television channel in July.

"Freedom of thought and speech are democratic gifts we need to see practiced more courageously and honorably in our hyper-sensitive and hyper-controlling society and Spokane FAVS...

(RNS) Choice and change reshape Hispanics' view of Catholicism, Protestant faiths and no faith at all.

(RNS) This NBA season has been unprecedented when it comes to the blending of basketball and unresolved social issues. There has been a widespread push for increased tolerance on all fronts. Yet the conversation about religion and how it's best handled by coaches and players remains fluid.

It is probably an understatement to say that these are not the “glory days” of any denomination — Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians or the United Church of Christ.

Last week, the United Church of Christ, one of the first denominations in the United States to allow its clergy to marry same-sex couples, sued the state of North Carolina to have Amendment One rescinded.