There is a lot of controversy lately about “nationalism,” “Christian nationalism,” and “national... Read More
Tomorrow, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that seeks to answer questions about identity, something which... Read More
There’s a void in evangelical culture. Scholars have discussed Evangelicals’ attraction to strongmen and their attempts to make... Read More
Friendship, a concept that is often innocuous, has been an unexpectedly hot-button issue this past week, thanks to Ellen DeGeneres and George... Read More
t's not enough that Attorney General William Barr, whose office is supposed to be nominally independent of the president's, is busy pursuing... Read More
Attorney General William Barr finds himself the target of criticism for remarks he made at the University of Notre Dame in which he made the... Read More
Democratic presidential candidates have spent the year introducing wave after wave of new policy ideas. Some of them are excellent. Others... Read More
The Synod of the Amazon is a sign of the times. So its Instrumentum laboris says. Who could disagree? And what times these are! Some are... Read More
Priestly celibacy in the Latin Rite has come back into open discussion due to the Pan-Amazon synod. Some voices are asking whether the... Read More
Religiosity in the U.S. is in sharp decline, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center on Thursday, with the ranks of people... Read More
It's Halloween season. You may have noticed that by walking on the streets near your home and encountering those all-too-familiar garish... Read More
Roman Yossel Remis had not yet reached the Hineni prayer on Yom Kippur when a white supremacist attacked the synagogue in Halle,... Read More
It is no coincidence that the words "medication" and "meditation" are only one letter different. They both come from the same Latin root... Read More
Hopelessness has a cure but it's not a popular one. That cure is religion and the civil institutions that give it sanction.To say so out loud as been taboo in in the public sector for years, but that didn't stop Attorney General William Barr from addressing what he sees as a dissolution of society's "traditional moral order" during an event at the University of Notre Dame Law School last Read More
During last night's CNN Town Hall, focused on issues relating to the LGBTQ community, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke was asked whether churches should lose their tax-exempt status if they opposed same-sex marriage.His response was a blunt "Yes."It was a shocking statement from a presidential candidate — though not entirely unexpected from someone who needs to w Read More
How will evangelist Billy Graham (1918–2018) be remembered? And is his son Franklin damaging the religious leader's legacy with his excessive politicizing for the Republican Party and Donald Trump?In the new biography One Soul at a Time, historian Grant Wacker, an emeritus professor at Duke Divinity School, builds on his previous work about Graham to explore the man behind the leg Read More
