At times like this it is worth considering and reflecting upon the history and principles of religious toleration. We often lost sight of just how demanding and challenging calls for religious ...

Philadelphia's Bible Riots of 1844 reflected a strain of anti-Catholic bias and hostility that coursed through 19th-century America. Granger Collection, New York Wading into the controversy ...

Christian nationalists believe America was founded to be a Christian nation and Christianity should have a favored status. But our actual founding was quite different. Our nation was born out of a ...

Candace de Russy’s essay is an example of Orwellian doublespeak (“Rule by Those of Little Faith,” The Review, February 22). She hails such virtues as religious toleration and “the liberal idea,” yet ...

The U.S. has been urging Franco Spain to show greater religious tolerance to its 20,000 Protestants. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Seville, a man of monolithic opinions who dislikes ...

In his Lyceum Address, a young Abraham Lincoln praised the Founding Fathers for creating “a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, ...

Before the new administration takes office and we discover whether the unofficial new Department of Government Efficiency can set the country on a new course, or whether the “new boss” ends up being ...

As he edited the essays for a new book on religious tolerance, Calvin professor of philosophy Kelly Clark faced challenges that went beyond punctuation transgressions. For one thing, two of the ...

Gandhi wrote, “The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of devotees of the different religions.” As incendiary rhetoric, hate and religious discrimination spread ...