RealClearReligion

The college experience for students of diverse backgrounds has come under the microscope in recent years, with data on the topic often being... Read More

Defend Religious Liberty for All Despite Our Differences

Asma T. Uddin, RealClearReligion

As an author with a second book newly published, I attend quite a few public readings, panel discussions, and similar events. The setup (low... Read More

Videos

Lessons from 'The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill' with Mike Cosper

Why is Antisemitism Still Around?

How I Hear God’s Voice as a Deaf Latter-day Saint

The Messy Call to Christian Unity with Francis Chan

How Big Tech Targets Faith Groups for Censorship

Joshua Holdenried, RCR

Most people click "accept" on tech companies' user agreements without reading them. But faith-based nonprofits should think twice before... Read More

Critical Race Theory Debate Distracts From God’s Justice

Esau McCaulley, CT

I remember the World War II stories I was told as a middle school student. Wearing secondhand clothes and sporting an unkempt fade, I sat in... Read More

Confession, Forgiveness in Catholic/Orthodox Traditions

Dollahite & Marks, PS

My (Dave’s) mom was raised by an Irish Catholic mother. My Catholic mom and my Baptist dad met in the middle and were married in the... Read More

Deconstructing in a Church Filled With Rot

Karen Prior, Religion News Service

Deconstruction is a scary word for most of us. In the 1980s, when I was in graduate school, deconstruction was all the buzz in literary... Read More

Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish? Does it Matter?

Andrew Porwancher, RD

For all the ink spilled on Alexander Hamilton by historians, and for all the buzz generated by the Hamilton musical, there's a hidden history... Read More

LDS Handbook: Welcome Refugees, No Politics at Church

Tad Walch, DN

Latter-day Saints should welcome refugees to their communities and keep church settings free of politics, according to the latest updates in... Read More

Evangelicalism Is Not a Monolith

Terry Shoemaker, Conversation

A precipitous decline in the number of Americans identifying as white evangelical was revealed in Public Religion Research Institute's 2020... Read More

Long Live Jewish English!

Eliezer Lawrence, Tablet

"I can tell she was speaking English, but I have no idea what she said," said my friend Mike, a broad-shouldered Catholic man of German and... Read More

Why Should the Church Reach Out to LGBTQ People?

James Martin, America

Why should Catholics reach out to L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics or, more broadly, to L.G.B.T.Q. people? We should reach out not simply because they... Read More

Justice Department Declines to Defend Conscience Rights

A. DeSanctis, NR

The Department of Justice has declined to pursue a case against the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC), a suit that the government... Read More

Social Media Platforms Ignore Antisemitism

Imran Ahmed, Forward

It's rare to be able to put a number on corporate tolerance of hate speech. But in a recent experiment, we were able to do so -- and the... Read More

US Mosques Increasingly Melting Pots of Islamic Traditions

J. Hammond, WP

The American mosque is becoming more American. At least according to Ihsan Bagby, who has authored a report for the Institute for Social... Read More

RCReligion Analysis

How Big Tech Targets Faith Groups for Censorship

Joshua D. Holdenried, RealClearReligion

Most people click “accept” on tech companies’ user agreements without reading them. But faith-based nonprofits should think... Read More

Are LGBTQ+ Students Really Worse Off at Christian Colleges?

Gene Schaerr & Nicholas Miller, RealClearReligion

The college experience for students of diverse backgrounds has come under the microscope in recent years, with data on the topic often being... Read More

Defend Religious Liberty for All Despite Our Differences

Asma T. Uddin, RealClearReligion

As an author with a second book newly published, I attend quite a few public readings, panel discussions, and similar events. The setup (low... Read More

Videos

Lessons from 'The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill' with Mike Cosper

Why is Antisemitism Still Around?

How I Hear God’s Voice as a Deaf Latter-day Saint

The Messy Call to Christian Unity with Francis Chan

How Big Tech Targets Faith Groups for Censorship

Joshua D. Holdenried, RealClearReligion

Most people click “accept” on tech companies’ user agreements without reading them. But faith-based nonprofits should think twice before doing so. A new report from the Napa Legal Institute shows that prominent tech companies can force religious organizations to abide by secular liberal values as a condition of using a product or service. We surveyed the user agreements &nda... Read More

Religious Persecution & Discrimination

Social Media Platforms Ignore Antisemitism

Imran Ahmed, Forward

It's rare to be able to put a number on corporate tolerance of hate speech. But in a recent experiment, we were able to do so -- and the results are chilling. During six weeks this summer, we flagged and reported hundreds of egregious posts containing antisemitism to social media platforms using their own user tools. 5 in 6 of our reports were ignored.... Read More

Religious Freedom

Justice Department Declines to Defend Conscience Rights

Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review

The Department of Justice has declined to pursue a case against the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC), a suit that the government initially filed last year after a former nurse alleged that she had been forced to participate in an abortion procedure despite her objections. In December of last year, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division under the Trump administration filed a law... Read More

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