(RNS) — From Russia and Hungary to Turkey and India to the U.S. of A., actual and wannabe authoritarians make a practice of imbuing their movements with religious significance, in a way that ...

Walk into any megachurch on a Sunday morning, scroll through your social media feed, or flip past a religious broadcast, and you’ll likely encounter it: the bold promise that faith can unlock ...

Liberal Protestants built a global elite in the 20th century. Its fracturing holds a caution for evangelicals today. Political upheaval has produced a split within a large Christian community. The ...

Anyone who’s been paying attention to the rhetoric of the religious and political Right has heard it: the sound of a critical moment in a bad horror movie. It’s the moment when we learn that the ...

The Vatican on Wednesday expelled the founder of an influential Peruvian religious movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, after the Catholic hierarchy spent more than a decade of downplaying ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

But President Donald Trump is trying to create a new religious right, one that is not just illiberal but fundamentally different and opposed to traditional religion as we’ve known it. The faith of the ...

On June 15, 1215, in a field called Runnymede by the banks of the river Thames, the English barons and the archbishop of Canterbury looked on as the king of England’s seal was affixed to the Magna ...

Lance Wallnau speaking with attendees at the 2023 Pastors Summit San Diego hosted by Turning Point Faith in San Diego, California. Wallnau first proclaimed that Donald Trump was like King Cyrus of ...