(The Conversation) — Religious freedom has grown more important in US foreign policy – but does that come at the expense of promoting other human rights? Underlying many debates about how courts and ...

I began my career as a scholar of crime, deviance, and social problems, studying where things went wrong in the world and in people’s lives. Only in recent years have I come to appreciate a whole ...

Human innovation may alter how we see, hear or even perceive reality, but it will not undo the deepest truths of faith. Ecclesiastes reminds us, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Eccl. 1:9). Every ...

This week marks 75 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) — the document that has become the blueprint for our international ...

Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush explores the urgent message of the Freedom To Read Day of Community Action with three leaders in the fight against book bans: Dartmouth Librarian Qiana Johnson, ...

It would be noteworthy if religious faith or regular attendance at worship services prevented disease, improved health, and prolonged life. For one thing, the United States now spends an average of ...

There is a widespread assumption in American political discourse that individual rights are due to us because we are human beings. In his Second Treatise of Government, John Locke anchored the right ...

The impact of Moltbook, the social network of 'bots' where a non-human religion has been founded, and the rise of AI-generated religious content among believers open the debate on what a future with ...

A glance at recorded history shows us that humans have “always” felt a need to explain phenomena perceived to exist beyond our comprehension. Today, we turn to science to seek answers to our questions ...

Every year, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) releases a report on religious oppression around the world, recommending that the State Department designate specific ...