Science | Religion & Politics

New Smithsonian Exhibit Explores the Complexity of Science and Religion

The exhibit displays objects that speak to the integration of religion and science, not their conflict.

By Adam R. Shapiro

Religious motivation and political opportunism can create strange bedfellows.

By Joseph Stuart

In a secularizing America, nascent non-believers wrestle with life after religion, with science as a candle in the chaos.

By Elijah Hurwitz

Michael J. O’Loughlin talks about his new book, “Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.”

By Eric C. Miller

Why Impossible Food’s new vegan “pork” product was denied kosher status.

By Adam R. Shapiro

Covid-19 vaccines are only the latest in a long line of new technologies that have been considered a sign of the end times.

By Tiffany Firebaugh

The evangelical says, “I’m a climate scientist because I’m a Christian.”

By Eric C. Miller

“Creationism” has become a powerful rhetorical term in the Science Wars.

By Adam R. Shapiro

There is still vaccine skepticism among the faithful.

By Jason Koon

COVID-19 has created both a boon and a problem for religious conservatives at the Supreme Court.

By Jenna Reinbold