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Where Critical Race Theory Can Help Utah, BYU

Warner Woodworth, PSM

Southern Baptist Controversy is Not About Trump

Dominic Pino, National Review

TikTok Intifada: New Media in Old Conflicts

James Ball, Spectator

No Justice, No Republic

Michel Gurfinkiel, First Things

The Important Conservative Faith Group You Don't Know

Mya Jaradat, Deseret

Why the Temple District of Nauvoo Matters

Sarah Weaver, Church News

The Woman Who Unearthed Jerusalem

Rachel Ginsberg, Mishpacha

US Embassy to Vatican Flies LGBT Pride Flag

Catholic News Agency

California to Pay $2M Church Legal Fees Over Virus Closures

Brian Melley, AP

Heal in Community

Arisika Razak, Lion's Roar

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The Good Soil of Europe is Ripe for Sowing

J. John, RealClearReligion

Despite its popular title, Jesus' parable of "The Sower" implies that fruitful evangelism depends not so much on the one who sows the seed... Read More

'Satan's Dare' and the Search for Truth

Jim DeMint, RealClearReligion

Several decades ago, while on vacation, my wife and I visited a church on Easter Sunday. The sermon stunned me. After describing the... Read More

Whole Person Care – True Death with Dignity

James Day, RealClearReligion

In its 2015 report, “Dying in America,” the Institute of Medicine concluded that the spiritual, medical, and emotional needs for... Read More

Videos

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Judaism, and Israel

World Over: Cardinal Gerhard Muller and George Weigel with Raymond Arroyo

The Priority of the Person

Fulton v. Philadelphia | The case that could redefine religious freedom

Where Critical Race Theory Can Help Utah, BYU

Warner Woodworth, PSM

Arecent Public Square piece entitled "Critical Race Theory and the Gospel of Jesus" rejected a book being used at BYU as problematic. It's... Read More

Southern Baptist Controversy is Not About Trump

Dominic Pino, National Review

On May 18, Russell Moore announced his resignation as president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern... Read More

TikTok Intifada: New Media in Old Conflicts

James Ball, Spectator

In Israel last month, a video on the social media platform TikTok encouraged users to film themselves assaulting Orthodox Jews. That video... Read More

No Justice, No Republic

Michel Gurfinkiel, First Things

The Sarah Halimi case - a brutal anti-Semitic assassination followed by an ongoing denial of justice - may be construed as the "original sin"... Read More

The Important Conservative Faith Group You Don't Know

Mya Jaradat, Deseret

Although the next presidential election is still 31⁄2 years away, some Republican hopefuls are already taking tentative first steps... Read More

Why the Temple District of Nauvoo Matters

Sarah Weaver, Church News

The western view across the Mississippi River from the bluff where William and Esther Gheen lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, in the 1840s must have... Read More

The Woman Who Unearthed Jerusalem

Rachel Ginsberg, Mishpacha

When maverick archaeologist Eilat Mazar passed away last week at age 64 after a prolonged illness, she left behind a legacy that many Jews,... Read More

US Embassy to Vatican Flies LGBT Pride Flag

Catholic News Agency

The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See announced on Tuesday, June 1, that it was displaying the rainbow LGBT "Pride" flag for the month of June,... Read More

California to Pay $2M Church Legal Fees Over Virus Closures

Brian Melley, AP

The state of California has agreed not to impose greater coronavirus restrictions on church gatherings than it does on retail establishments... Read More

Heal in Community

Arisika Razak, Lion's Roar

Everyone, no matter how privileged, has moments when their world falls apart. Fear, despair, and grief can overwhelm us as we struggle with... Read More

RCReligion Analysis

The Good Soil of Europe is Ripe for Sowing

J. John, RealClearReligion

Despite its popular title, Jesus' parable of "The Sower" implies that fruitful evangelism depends not so much on the one who sows the seed... Read More

'Satan's Dare' and the Search for Truth

Jim DeMint, RealClearReligion

Several decades ago, while on vacation, my wife and I visited a church on Easter Sunday. The sermon stunned me. After describing the... Read More

Whole Person Care – True Death with Dignity

James Day, RealClearReligion

In its 2015 report, “Dying in America,” the Institute of Medicine concluded that the spiritual, medical, and emotional needs for... Read More

Videos

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Judaism, and Israel

World Over: Cardinal Gerhard Muller and George Weigel with Raymond Arroyo

The Priority of the Person

Fulton v. Philadelphia | The case that could redefine religious freedom

Russell Moore Letter Leaked After SBC Resignation

Paul O'Donnell, Bob Smietana, Religion News Service

For years before his resignation last month as president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the Rev. Russell Moore was considered the denomination's most outspoken "Never Trumper," and when he departed for a job at Christianity Today magazine, it was considered a victory for pro-Trump SBC forces.... Read More

Religious Persecution & Discrimination

Trying to Make Israel vs. Hamas About Race is Dangerous

James Kirchick, Washington Post

It has long been axiomatic that, whenever violence flares up between Israel and the Palestinians, Jews in Europe suffer collateral damage. As soon as the rockets fly from Gaza City, synagogues in Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris go on high alert; rabbis vary their daily commutes, and police beef up the permanent security presence outside Jewish institutions.... Read More

Religious Freedom

How the Pandemic Changed Free Exercise Forever

Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News

In April 1990, the Supreme Court issued one of the most significant religious freedom rulings in its history, deciding the First Amendment’s free exercise clause does not protect faith groups from neutral, generally applicable laws.... Read More

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