A survey released in August 2005 by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life reported Americans’ beliefs about the origins of life.

An MIT survey published in Feb. 2013 interviewed and observed the gap between religion and science, in particular the struggle between faith and science on the topic of the creation of the universe, evolution and intelligent design.

Read a May 21, 2013 Huffington Post article about the struggle that many Christians have with reconciling science and faith.

Read an May 23, 2013 Catholic Reporter response to an essay about the relationship between religion and science, and how history influenced how the subjects are debated today.

Read an Aug. 17, 2006, Los Angeles Times story about Dr. Francis Collins’ book on the debate over religion and science.

Read a number of New York Times articles by Albert Einstein about the science v. religion debate and how he sees room in the world for both to exist in congruence.

Ann Taves is professor at the University of California – Santa Barbara. She wrote the article “Religion and Same-Sex Relations in the American Context” for the Religious Studies Review.

Read a May 25, 2011 article about the influence of fundamentalists and extreme atheists over media’s discussion of religion and science, and how that relationship is actually not in conflict for most of the population.

The Rev. Joretta L. Marshall is executive vice president and dean of Texas Christian University’s Brite Divinity School, where she is also professor of pastoral theology and pastoral care and counseling. She wrote “Covenants and Partnerships: Pastoral Counseling with Women in Lesbian Relationships” for the Journal of Pastoral Theology.