With perhaps the biggest sporting event of the year taking place last weekend, Barna Group looks at the influence of athletes and the role faith plays in American sports.

Earlier this month, NBC did something rare. In fact, it’s happened on average only once every two and a half years years since 1972. The network included an abortion plotline in a recent episode of its Tuesday night drama Parenthood.

January 18, 2013 – From Louie Giglio’s withdrawal from the Inauguration Day prayer, to Hobby Lobby’s refusal to pay for health insurance that covers potentially abortion-inducing medicines, to President Obama’s newly decreed January 16 as “Religious Freedom Day,” the question of religious liberty and just how far it stretches and how much it covers is…

From its place in schools, to the public square, to people’s individual lives, the current and future role of the Bible in U.S. society is an often-debated topic. A new release from Barna Group shows how this debate plays out regionally and takes a look at how 96 of the largest cities in the nation…

The percentage of Americans who believe homosexuality is a sin has decreased significantly in a year, according to a survey by LifeWay Research.

Faith and religion—primarily Catholicism—remain strong influences on millions of Hispanics, but they are a group in transition. This is true of Hispanics even more so than other Americans. Some of these dimensions of transition include Hispanics’ willingness to change denominations or faiths, their transitory connections with congregations and the softening allegiance of Millennials to Catholic…

Many academics and literary critics in Tolkien’s day—and many still today—dismissed Tolkien’s tales as “mere” children’s literature not worthy of serious academic consideration . . . One year after publishing The Hobbit, Tolkien presented a lecture (on March 8, 1939) at the University of St. Andrews on the subject of fairy tales.

A hardened ex-convict has just robbed a bishop — the only person who had been kind to him. He’s promptly caught and dragged back to the scene of the crime to face his punishment. Instead, he receives undreamed-of mercy.