(RNS) — A secular solstice celebration in wintertime is not for everyone. But attending one of these rituals for the religiously unaffiliated helps define our own ideas of 'sacred' and 'profane.'

(RNS) — It makes perfect sense that we would curate our religious self-conceptions the same way we silo ourselves on our Facebook and Twitter feeds.

(RNS) — Despite a public space rigged against their version of the good, traditional Christians do manage to convince people with very different views of the truth of their claims.

(RNS) — The British case shows that the sacredness of letting patients or their surrogates make decisions based on their own values can be discarded when the decision is about abortion.

(RNS) — Since in the bishops’ minds this marriage never took place, it may be easy for them to quietly climb out of bed and disappear into the night. They have gotten most of what they wanted out of the liaison; it is time to move on before it is too late.

WASHINGTON (RNS) What they forget is that on some issues, Bannon and they were in agreement.

Because of a family illness, I need to take a break from blogging. I hope to be back to writing in January, and I wish you all . . . not a merry Christmas, exactly, but a deep joy no matter what your life feels like right now.

I am deeply sad and expect to be for months, if not years. But today I return to blogging because one of the ways I can honor my mother is by continuing to write.

If you have been watching the news, you might conclude that religion inevitably causes evil. Not so fast.

Why "Martini Judaism: for those who want to be shaken and stirred"? Because that is the goal of religion -- to shake us out of our complacency, and stir us to action.

Religion and American Politics is the what this blog is about. Our goal is to approach this from a non-partisan standpoint. You can check out what this means by looking, for example, at a recent article in Religion in the News.

Mark Rasmussen is an undergraduate fellow at the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life. A religion major and member of the Trinity College class of 2009 from London, he is an editorial assistant for Religion in the News magazine.

(RNS) — Ridding our justice systems of those most prone to perpetuating injustice tells marginalized communities that they can trust the people.

(RNS) — Those with brown skin know that those who don’t experience racism have a hard time relating to it, a feeling we call 'white privilege.' But the Kavanaugh case has forced us all to confront the male privilege we didn't see.