Think your beliefs preclude you from being influenced by religious thoughts? Think again. Psychologists at Queen’s University have demonstrated that test subjects who are primed to think ...

(RNS) — Raised in an evangelical church she now describes as a “dumpster fire” of fundamentalist beliefs, Laura Anderson’s terror of hell kept her up at night ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that some companies with religious objections can avoid the contraceptives requirement in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, ...

A woman friend of mine, a Republican (or used to be), said to me recently, when I asked her about her stand on abortion, "Men have controlled me my whole life! Women should have total control over ...

Yesterday I spoke before the Committee on Prevention Services for Women at the Institute of Medicine on the critical importance of covering birth control as a preventive service in health care. The ...

As a follow-up to Part 1 on this subject, here are two more ways to improve control over your thinking and behavior. "Mind over matter" is a central theme in most religions. The idea is that proper ...

(RNS) — ‘Our bodies recognize that we’re being activated and pushed into trauma responses and that the same abusive techniques are being used on us,’ said author Tia Levings. (RNS) — When Donald Trump ...

Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his majority opinion, over a dissent from the four liberal justices, that forcing companies to pay for methods of women's contraception to which they object violates the ...