Belief, Religion & Meaning

The IRS quietly broke with seven decades of precedent on church political endorsements, a court blocked the move, and new guidance is still coming—here's what the law actually says right now.

A new Pew survey sorted Americans into four civic types — and the gap between watching public life and actually living it is wider than you might expect.

The LDS Church has mobilized millions of voters through satellite broadcasts, sacred pulpits, and apostolic instruction — and the law has almost never touched them for it.

Punishment shapes behavior when someone is watching. Religious moral frameworks do something stranger and harder to explain — they work when nobody is.

The exvangelical exodus didn't just move online — it got an audience, a template, and a feedback loop, and none of that is neutral.

The IRS just broke with seventy years of precedent on church political endorsements — and exposed the gap between what political operatives want from faith communities and what faith communities want for themselves.

Pundits and politicians keep announcing a spiritual Great Awakening — and survey after survey of tens of thousands of Americans keeps finding nothing of the sort.

Research on former LDS members reveals not a clean departure, but a years-long psychological unraveling — one that other Western faiths rarely inflict at the same depth.

Before any doctrine takes hold, there is a simpler transaction: someone was lonely, and a group noticed.

Political ruptures don't just change who people vote for — they restructure the psychological scaffolding that holds a whole identity together.

Online spaces for questioning faith can feel like rescue — but without addressing the underlying trauma, they often just swap one closed system for another.

Millions describe their exit from faith using the language of survival — and researchers and clinicians are slowly realizing that language isn't metaphor.