"Today, after more than three decades of activism, many in the religious right are stepping back from the front lines," proclaimed a Wall Street Journal piece published earlier this week, documenting ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) During the Reagan era, prominent figures of the Religious Right movement played a significant role in mobilizing conservative Christians and advocating for their political interests.

Super Tuesday and the success of Donald Trump among evangelicals have caused otherwise sensible observers to once again declare the religious right Often used interchangeably with Christian Right, but ...

The Religious Right I show is loosely aligned, fraught with internal religious divisions, and often in tension with itself. This had political consequences. While the Religious Right succeeded in ...

Last month the politically polarizing founder of the Moral Majority, Rev. Jerry Falwell, died. Falwell has been credited with mobilizing millions of evangelicals to engage the political process. The ...

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(RNS) — Most Americans believe religious liberty is a good thing and would be scandalized to know how some religious leaders, and even political leaders, are actively distorting its meaning to expand ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump greets Lt. Gov. of Texas Dan Patrick during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White ...

Today, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced a compromise on the contraception mandate. The proposal lets religious organizations opt out of directly providing women with birth ...

The religious right is alive and well in America, but a "new generation" of evangelicals is also focused on poverty, the environment and many other issues. Is there a political shift among Christian ...

In the last few years, legal same-sex marriage has arrived in 19 states and the District of Columbia. The armed forces' "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and federal law, which barred openly gay military ...