Co-authored with Dr. Ken Baskin. Few things are more important to human psychology writ large than religion. But what does this concept really mean? The more deeply we investigate it, the odder ...

One of my first memories is from church. We always seemed to arrive early enough to say the rosary, but this particular Sunday morning, my mom, brother, and I were late. We double-timed it up the ...

While fate can buffer the mind against chaos, its overuse leads to passivity. The challenge is to acknowledge its unapologetic authority without surrendering the responsibility to interpret and endure ...

CLEVELAND, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- With the news media's spotlight placed firmly on radical religious groups like the Taliban, the destructive qualities of religion have been hotly debated recently.

(The Conversation) — Researchers have long known that religious teens are less likely to engage in risky behavior. My team’s research explains why. We surveyed multiple times the religious beliefs and ...