(RNS) — With the help of addicts themselves, researchers are exploring the emotional, social and relational reasons why people become addicted—and how...
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(RNS) — The world's most famous — and infamous — atheist will speak near San Francisco on Aug. 9, after abrupt cancellation by a public radio station.
(RNS) 'I have my own personal rule, which is I never, ever tell people what to believe. And I never, ever tell people they’re wrong,' says Paul M. Sutter, an...
BERKELEY, Calif. (RNS) There are sometimes positive spiritual and religious changes for addicts, wounded warriors and the seriously depressed who take these...
(RNS) 'The observatory exists to show the world that the Catholic Church supports science,' says Brother Guy Consolmagno, an astronomer from Detroit who is...
(RNS) "We are now large enough to spit in God's face," McKibben says of the human race. "And we are."
A few years ago, Esther Emery was not a believer but she was burnt out. In a “desperate attempt for a reset,” she decided to take a year hiatus...
(RNS) 'My entreaty for scientists is to be able to speak publicly about why you care,' said the Rev. Fletcher Harper, executive director of GreenFaith.
(RNS) Sociologists debunk a common assumption about religion and science.
(RNS) Could Trump's Christian Cabinet picks have a chilling effect on the teaching of science in public schools?
(RNS) The study found that their religious actions were associated with activations in the region of the brain central to the reward circuit as well as the...
It's the job of religion is to keep it from stopping.
Is it possible to disagree about LGBT issues without demonizing others as haters or heretics, Pharisees or apostates?
WASHINGTON-Fresh off the campaign trail, where he headed Sen. Hillary Clinton’s religious outreach, Burns Strider has founded a new firm to help other...
NEW YORK-Michael (Michal) Heller, a Polish cosmologist and Roman Catholic priest whose commitment to combining the insights of science and religion stretches...