The science vs. religion debate is critical today psychologically because of how closely it ties to questions of meaning in a time when meaning so often escapes us. The Creative Systems Theory concept ...

The word “notwithstanding” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the ongoing public debate over whether West Virginia’s religious freedom act applies to school vaccination laws. Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...

An old lawsuit filed by Jehovah’s Witnesses challenging the Japanese government’s child abuse guidelines has kicked off a fresh debate on how far the state can go in regulating family life, especially ...

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For much of the last decade, the “religious liberty” debate was one of the most polarizing political fights in Georgia. Companies threatened boycotts. Protesters flooded the Capitol. Lawmakers risked ...

A Palakkad gym's plan to offer gender-segregated, music-free fitness spaces for Muslims has sparked nationwide debate.

A proposed bill granting greater powers to muftis (Muslim legal experts) has garnered controversy and sparked a vigorous discussion about the potentially grave implications on religious plurality and ...

(RNS) — President Donald Trump, speaking to a sprawling crowd at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday (Feb. 5), returned to his personal tradition of using the bipartisan convening as ...

The Kano State Films and Video Censorship Board (KSCB) has banned all form of religious debate in the state The board announced the prohibition of public debates among praise singers of Prophet ...