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Less than two weeks after President Obama announced that he supports same-sex marriage, the NAACP’s board released a resolution supporting same-sex marriage. Like Obama’s endorsement, the NAACP’…

College may be an investment in the future. But it’s a pricey one – and not without risk. The vast majority (94%) of students who earn a bachelor’s degree borrow money (including loans from the…

Even among the evangelical voters who say GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s religious beliefs differ from their own, Romney still holds a strong lead over Barack Obama.

There are religious groups on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate.

Next Tuesday, voters in North Carolina will head to the polls to vote on a ballot initiative that would enshrine marriage as a union between a man and a woman in the state constitution. Interestingly,…

Today, across the country, Americans will observe the 61st Annual National Day of Prayer, which was created in 1952 by a joint resolution of Congress. The first Thursday of May is reserved for this na…

A new survey shows that mainline Protestants, the religious group that has dominated America’s religious terrain for most of the country’s existence, and Catholics, the largest single denomination…

The one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden has prompted a fierce political skirmish about whether it is within the bounds of decency for President Obama to tout the terrorist mastermind’s death. Bu…

A new survey of U.S. Jewish opinion from the American Jewish Committee echoes many of the findings from the 2012 Jewish Values Survey, including continuing strong Jewish support for President Obama. T…

Today, the John C. Danforth Center at Washington University in St. Louis is launching Religion & Politics, a new online journal that focuses on the role religion plays in the civic and political l…