PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - We all know that the First Amendment protects our right to freedom of religion. But how do you define "religion"? A Utah woman said she faced surprisingly little resistance when ...

Guest host Michael Shermer and Dr. Michael Barnes, author of Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science (Oxford University Press), discuss the perceived conflict between ...

I am a minister. So, I believe in the value of religious community. And I value religious community whatever name one applies to it — church, congregation, synagogue, mosque, temple, shrine or ...

This post is in response to What Is the Meaning of Life for You? By Gleb Tsipursky Ph.D. Imagine the following scenario: you have been raised in a deeply evangelical household. From an early age, your ...

We all know how the battle lines shake out: evangelical vs. scientist, believer vs. atheist. The culture war defined as science vs. religion is so overheated that it seems to be more of a caricature ...

How different would the world be today if George Harrison, the introspective Beatle, hadn't chanced to pick up a sitar during the filming of "Help!" and start plinking away at it? Well, maybe not all ...

When Alan Jacobs writes of religious believers and secular people, much depends on one curious question of definition ("A Bachelor's Degree in Atheism," Houses of Worship, May 20). How should we ...

Traditionally the relation between philosophy and religion has been one either of identity, as in the early Middle Ages, or of hostility, as in the Age of Reason. In the eighteenth and nineteenth ...