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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

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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.... Read More

This Thanksgiving, Remember Historical Suffering

Andre Key, R Dispatches

Like clockwork, my social media accounts are slowly being populated with posts about the true origins of Thanksgiving or the need to declare... Read More

Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of First Thanksgiving

Mark Tooley, World

This year will be the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth, Mass., but there's little national conversation about it. Is... Read More

Fostering Peaceful Holidays in a Time of Fear and Anger

Public Square Mag

Long before animosities overtook American discourse and Black Friday invaded the entire month of November -- there was something else around... Read More

What the Bible Says About Giving Thanks

Myra Adams, Townhall

Thanks for joining us today. We begin our Thanksgiving-themed Bible study with a memorable quote from my deceased sister, Andrea: "I love... Read More

Giving Thanks is Important, Spiritually and Patriotically

Y. Menken, Newsweek

The U.S. Congress proposed an American day of thanks to the new and first president, George Washington, in September of 1789. And with... Read More

A Spirit of Gratitude Is Healthy for Society

Peter Coy, New York Times

Greetings as we approach the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving celebration. The Pilgrims in 1621 had much to be thankful for. They... Read More

Taking Sunday's Sermon to Black Friday

Rosa Harden, Religion News Service

In the church I grew up in, the congregation managed all decisions about repairs or needs of the church by getting bids and selecting the... Read More

How Saying Grace Adds Meaning to Meals

Emily Heil, Washington Post

Brett Levanto and his family had never said grace before meals, not regularly, anyway. But what began as a temporary challenge transformed... Read More

The Modern Festival of Lights

Jenna Weissman Joselit, Tablet Magazine

Of all the glorious objects on display at the Jewish Museum in New York or resting in its storerooms, awaiting their turn in the limelight,... Read More

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,... Read More

SCOTUS Case: Can Public Money Go to Religious Schools?

Mark Walsh, EW

The latest case to come before the U.S. Supreme Court on religious rights and school choice has been nearly 150 years in the making. The... 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

Republicans More Likely Than Democrats to Believe in Heaven, Say Only Their Faith Leads There

Justin Nortey, Pew Research Center

Republicans and Democrats disagree about a lot of worldly things. One thing that unites majorities across parties, however, is the belief that this earthly life is not all there is. A large majority of Republicans along with a smaller but still substantial majority of Democrats believe in heaven, hell or some other form of life after death, according to a new Pew Research Center survey conducted S... 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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