Christian support for legislation prohibiting abortion is a cultural and political stance. It has nothing to do with the Bible.
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Being gay in Africa can pose culturally specific challenges which the dominant, heterosexual culture may find difficult to accept.
In a country where Christians are a minority, understanding how religious groups use traditional arts and music to convey their faith and identity is important to preserve their cultural legacy.
The Catholic Church considers St. Joseph a role model of fatherhood and faith. In many countries, Father’s Day is celebrated on his feast day.
Views on abortion differ not only among major religious traditions, but within each one.
Just as Christians in the 1800s were persecuted for embracing foreign teachings, today the regime in power vilifies civil society and opposition political parties as foreign agents.
And what Adventists can teach us about living greener, longer lives.
Conservative Christians have cheered restrictions on some birth control. But many decades ago, Christian leaders’ support helped contraceptives become acceptable in the first place.
Two scholars of fundamentalism and creationism explain what they found when they visited the Ark Encounter, an evangelical theme park in Kentucky,
Temples are often open to the public for a period after construction or renovation, but only church members may enter once religious ceremonies begin.
Several US universities now recognize caste as part of nondiscrimination policies. Two scholars of South Asian studies explain how caste-based violence isn’t limited to Hinduism, or to India.
Easter and Passover begin on the same weekend this year. This is an opportunity to revisit misconceptions about Jesus’s ministry and to address anti-Jewish uses of Christian scripture.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s famous musical has long inspired controversy for how it depicts the story of Jesus of Nazareth.
Religion plays an important role in expansive views of Russian nationhood. But faith has played a role in Ukrainian nationalism, too.
Women’s contributions to global Christianity are immense, but scholars’ understanding is hampered by limited data.
The war in Ukraine is just the latest chapter in a long, tangled relationship between the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Jesuits are among the Catholic Church’s most influential religious orders but no strangers to controversy.
To many Ukrainians, Jesus’ mother has a special relationship with their country.
Over centuries, theory on just war has developed six main criteria for assessing conflicts.
Responses to COVID-19 health guidelines have been polarized, including in churches. But religious communities have a long history of involvement in public health.
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