When people walk away, perhaps the biggest challenge to this process is a psychological phenomenon called religious residue. Religion is sticky. It lingers after people deidentify from it. People ...

Founding Father John Adams said as much in 1798 when he wrote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” ...

Americans have been turning away from organized religion for decades — but recent research suggests that trend might be stalling out. And studies do show that people affiliated with a religion ...

In the United States, for instance, 64% of adults say it is important to have a president who stands up for people who share the respondent’s religious beliefs.Fewer (48%) say it’s important that a ...

With studies showing large numbers of Americans considering religious change or even leaving traditional religion, Dr. Daryl Van Tongeren of the Hope College psychology faculty has written a book to ...