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The Separatist

Kevin Williamson, National Review

The Impossible Politics of Church-State Partnerships

Kelsey Dallas, Deseret

The Miracle of the Dreidel

Carol Ungar, Tablet

Among Latter-day Saints, Religiosity Has Declined

Jana Riess, Salt Lake Tribune

Our Fear of the Real

Anthony Esolen, Catholic Thing

Dead Jews and the People Who Love Them

Yair Rosenberg & Dara Horn, Atlantic

Missions Organizations Urged to Assess Abuse Accountability

Silliman, CT

Flynn is Wrong: America Needs Jesus, Not 'One Religion'

Ed Stetzer, Yahoo

Church Vandalism is Soaring. Everyone Should Care

S. Aquila & T. Busch, WP

What is Our Duty Towards the Environment?

Benayahu Tavila, Tzarich Iyun

RCReligion Analysis

Religious Employers Shouldn't Have to Violate Their Convictions on Gender Ideology

Shannon O. Royce, RealClearReligion

Suppose for a moment that President Joe Biden wakes up tomorrow morning and decides that stealing isn't wrong. Thus persuaded, he has the... Read More

Anti-Racism as Religion: Bad Faith or Good Analogy?

Patrick Gray, RealClearReligion

John McWhorter knows a duck when he sees one. His most recent book "Woke Racism" considers the recent preoccupation with race among... Read More

When Efforts to Convert Jews Become Harmful

David J. Michaels, RealClearReligion

A growing number of reports have recently emerged of missionaries targeting Jews for conversion. Some of these have even involved Christians... Read More

Videos

Abused at Christian Summer Camp, Survivors Say They’ve Been Kept Silent

Millennial Nuns: Reflections on Living a Spiritual Life in a World of Social Media

How The Protestant Reformation Affected Jews

Greek Philosophy and Judaism

The Separatist

Kevin Williamson, National Review

William Bradford, the Pilgrim leader who organized the first Thanksgiving in 1621, was a Separatist. The Separatists, reformers who took to... Read More

The Impossible Politics of Church-State Partnerships

Kelsey Dallas, Deseret

Most Americans believe faith-based organizations should be eligible for government funds. But strong public support doesn’t mean... Read More

The Miracle of the Dreidel

Carol Ungar, Tablet

In my childhood home, family game night wasn’t part of our culture. I played games with my friends -- Old Maid, Risk, Monopoly, and... Read More

Among Latter-day Saints, Religiosity Has Declined

Jana Riess, Salt Lake Tribune

In 2008, more than three-quarters of U.S. Latter-day Saints said that religion was "very important" to them, but by 2020 that had declined to... Read More

Our Fear of the Real

Anthony Esolen, Catholic Thing

I hear that Congress, soft of hand and brain, will consider removing the immemorial exemption of women from conscription into combat. ... Read More

Dead Jews and the People Who Love Them

Yair Rosenberg & Dara Horn, Atlantic

"This book explores the many strange and sickening ways in which the world's affection for dead Jews shapes the present moment. I hope you... Read More

Missions Organizations Urged to Assess Abuse Accountability

Silliman, CT

A megachurch pastor who was mentored by Ravi Zacharias warned 4,000 missionaries, ministers, and church leaders at the International... Read More

Flynn is Wrong: America Needs Jesus, Not 'One Religion'

Ed Stetzer, Yahoo

Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn caused a firestorm with his recent comments on Nov. 13 at the "ReAwaken America Tour" in... Read More

Church Vandalism is Soaring. Everyone Should Care

S. Aquila & T. Busch, WP

"Satan lives here." These words greeted parishioners and visitors on a recent Sunday morning at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate... Read More

What is Our Duty Towards the Environment?

Benayahu Tavila, Tzarich Iyun

Recent years have been replete with extreme climate events, raising questions about our responsibility to preserve God’s world. Certain... Read More

RCReligion Analysis

Religious Employers Shouldn't Have to Violate Their Convictions on Gender Ideology

Shannon O. Royce, RealClearReligion

Suppose for a moment that President Joe Biden wakes up tomorrow morning and decides that stealing isn't wrong. Thus persuaded, he has the... Read More

Anti-Racism as Religion: Bad Faith or Good Analogy?

Patrick Gray, RealClearReligion

John McWhorter knows a duck when he sees one. His most recent book "Woke Racism" considers the recent preoccupation with race among... Read More

When Efforts to Convert Jews Become Harmful

David J. Michaels, RealClearReligion

A growing number of reports have recently emerged of missionaries targeting Jews for conversion. Some of these have even involved Christians... Read More

Videos

Abused at Christian Summer Camp, Survivors Say They’ve Been Kept Silent

Millennial Nuns: Reflections on Living a Spiritual Life in a World of Social Media

How The Protestant Reformation Affected Jews

Greek Philosophy and Judaism

On Being Thankful for America at Thanksgiving

George Weigel, First Things

This Thanksgiving, no one living in the United States should be anything but profoundly grateful for the privilege of living in this country. No one. That's not necessarily a popular sentiment today. The country is amidst one of its periodic spasms of self-flagellation, amplified by political hucksters and charlatans of right and left (nothing new) and by social media demagogy (something new and o... Read More

Religious Persecution & Discrimination

From Pittsburgh to the Holocaust

Jonathan Sarna, Jewish Review of Books

Each anniversary of the 2018 Tree of Life Synagogue shooting -- the deadliest attack on a Jewish community in all of American Jewish history -- has brought forth a freshly published book. For the first anniversary, journalist Bari Weiss, who grew up in Pittsburgh and was bat mitzvah at the Tree of Life Synagogue, wrote How to Fight Anti-Semitism. Part history, part analysis, part cri de coeur, the... Read More

Religious Freedom

Can Christian Schools Can Fire Gay Teachers?

Josiah Hesse, Guardian

When volleyball coach Inoke Tonga was called in for a meeting with the leadership of Valor Christian high school in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, this fall, he thought he was about to be offered a promotion. Instead, he was interrogated with a series of vague, leading questions that attempted to get him to admit he was gay. Tonga had been out for years – and knew his contract never stated ... Read More

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