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 risk behavior of ...

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What are the two things you’re never supposed to discuss at the dinner table? Politics and religion. Despite most Americans identifying as religious and the United States being the most religious ...

Psychiatrists and clergymen, meeting over the ailing psyche of modern man, still eye one another suspiciously. Rare is the churchman who makes systematic use of psychiatric techniques in his ministry ...