My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was heavily influenced by that. But, I als….

Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from a right versus ….

I think it is very clear that, though great difference remained, evangelicals moved closer to Catholics, mainline Protestants and evangelical Protest….

It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and 70s and….

I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul..

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways..

It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who is holding han….

America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise o….

Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of gener….

I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the way with Osteen to the idea that God….

In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in the culture ….

The idea of universal human rights may not seem as weird to some people as the idea of a personal God, but it is still a metaphysical idea that liber….

In the end, you do need institutions to transmit the faith for the long haul. That's why I make the case that, in certain ways, American Protestants ….

I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take a healthy patrio….

I think it is fair, in a way, to describe certain forms of Marxism, for instance, as the secular equivalent of a religion. But, I think the same is t….

You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic..

During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have ….

Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where I….

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics..

One of the things I try to do is take seriously some of the forms of American religion that people consider to be shallow and try and figure out why ….

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christian….