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Many Christians keep themselves separate from certain aspects of modern life, perhaps fearing potentially corrupting influences. This type of... Read More

Girls in South Asia Face Forced Marriages and Conversions

Lois McLatchie, RealClearReligion

The world is still deciding how to react to Afghanistan. On Wednesday, the Taliban's international PR... Read More

The New Face of the Moral Majority

D.G. Hart, RealClearReligion

Americans know evangelical Protestants to be moralists. Another way of putting it is “scolds.” Indeed, the conservative... Read More

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Christians and Critical Race Theory

What Radical Islam and the Woke Have In Common

Empathy, Abuse, and Buckets of Evangelicals

The Failure of Evangelical Elites

Carl Trueman, First Things

There are times in history when Christianity feels its place in society coming under threat. As it finds itself pushed to the margins, two... Read More

Evangelical Elites, Fighting Each Other

David French, Dispatch

Let's start with a story. It began in 2011 when Vanderbilt University issued an ultimatum to religious student groups -- affirm the school's... Read More

The State of Evangelical Leadership

Mark Galli, Galli Report

The article with the subtitle, "American evangelicalism is at a crossroads: accommodate the culture and politics of liberalism, or embrace... Read More

Colin Powell's Life Steeped in Jewish Culture, Yiddish

Kornbluh & Markoe, For.

Colin Powell, the former U.S. Secretary of State and first Black person to hold the job, lived on the same South Bronx block as Norman and... Read More

The High Church of Wokeism

Joseph Keegin, Tablet

In the summer of 2018, a celebrity diversity consultant published a book that would soon take the nation by storm. White Fragility: Why It's... Read More

Reckoning Over Sexual Abuse Among Reform Jews

Yonat Shimron, RNS

After a prominent Manhattan synagogue made public the results of an investigation into the "sexually predatory" behavior of one of its former... Read More

Supreme Court’s Chance to Defend Religious Liberty

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, NR

Will this Supreme Court continue to rule consistent with the original meaning of the Constitution? So far, the answer appears to be "yes,"... Read More

The Christians Who Mock Wokeness for a Living

Emma Green, Atlantic

The Babylon Bee, an online satire publication that launched in 2016, has become a popular destination for Christians disaffected with... Read More

Buddhist Monk, Makeup Artist, and LGBTQ Activist

Aria Chen, Time

uddhist monks are typically trained to live austerely, wearing plain robes and few accessories. Kodo Nishimura does anything but. He tends to... Read More

Apple Takes Down Quran App in China

James Clayton, BBC News

Quran Majeed is available across the world on the App Store - and has nearly 150,000 reviews. It is used by millions of Muslims. The BBC... Read More

RCReligion Analysis

Choosing a Culture of Prayer Over Isolation

Deirdre Reilly, RealClearReligion

Many Christians keep themselves separate from certain aspects of modern life, perhaps fearing potentially corrupting influences. This type of... Read More

Girls in South Asia Face Forced Marriages and Conversions

Lois McLatchie, RealClearReligion

The world is still deciding how to react to Afghanistan. On Wednesday, the Taliban's international PR... Read More

The New Face of the Moral Majority

D.G. Hart, RealClearReligion

Americans know evangelical Protestants to be moralists. Another way of putting it is “scolds.” Indeed, the conservative... Read More

Videos

Greek Philosophy and Judaism

Christians and Critical Race Theory

What Radical Islam and the Woke Have In Common

Empathy, Abuse, and Buckets of Evangelicals

Progressive Christians Complicit in Christian Supremacy

Andre Key, Religion Dispatches

As we reflect on the implications of the Trump years there have been several books exploring the convergence of white evangelical Christianity, right-wing nationalism, and Trumpism as it morphed into a virulent form white Christian nationalism. These books offer critiques of the roots of this religious phenomenon as it came into full bloom during the 2016 presidential election and subsequent Trump... Read More

Religious Persecution & Discrimination

Wife of Synagogue Massacre Survivor: No Death Penalty

Beth Kissileff, Forward

The capital murder case against the perpetrator of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting is dragging on; the Poway shooter who committed his synagogue attack six months later has already received a sentence of life in prison without parole. This week’s two-day evidentiary hearing was filled with testimony from police officers recounting antisemitic comments made by the shooter at the synago... Read More

Religious Freedom

Stop Distorting Religious Liberty When Debating Abortion

Mitchell Rocklin, Howard Slugh, JewishLink

On September 20, several Jewish groups, alongside a Catholic organization, filed a Supreme Court brief arguing that religious concerns should trump secular interests when it comes to the constitutionality of Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban. If you assumed that these were pro-life groups invoking religion to argue that the Supreme Court should allow states to ban abortion, you were mistaken. In ... Read More

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