RealClearReligion Week of August 18, 2025 Archives

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Monday, August 18
Restoring Holy Family Church: A Bridge of Faith Amid War
Cardinal Dolan FT
Allowing Churches to Endorse Politicians Can Be Perfectly Liberal
B. Leff NYT
Notre Dame Is Still Burning
Kristen Ziccarelli The European Conservative
Who Was the Buddha?
Barbara O'Brien Lion’s Roar
This Might Be The Most Misunderstood Passage In The Bible
Unplugged
US Catholic Bishops Fan the Flames of Violence Against ICE
Chronicles
Did God Forbid Brain Transplants?
Justin R. Hawkins Comment
Jesus Was Not a “Faithful Jew”
Philip Primeau Crisis
Psalm Summer Part 3 With Psalm 63
Myra Kahn Adams Townhall
Pope Shares Mass and Meal with Homeless, Refugees
C. Hale Letters from Leo
Trial Against Catholic Media Tycoon in Hong Kong Delayed Once Again
Crux
Psychedelics And Christian Faith
Brad Thibodeaux The Prodigal Empire
Conserving Religion in a Populist Era
Glenn A. Moots Law & Liberty


Tuesday, August 19
More Than Meets the Eye
Andrew Fowler RealClearReligion
Is Faith Required For Reading The Bible Properly?
Adam Renberg Anxious Bench
Western Muslims for Public Christianity
Jacob Williams First Things
What Is a Christian Calling
Holly Berkley Fletcher Plough
The Invisible Vocations Crisis
Stephen White The Pillar
Twelver Shiism: Branch of Islam that Serves as Force in Iran
The Conversation
Did Religion Motivate Assassination of Minnesota Lawmaker?
Minnesota Reformer
Why Egypt Has Rekindled Its War On Atheism
Shimaa El-Yousef Religion Unplugged
An Ethnic Cleansing of Muslims is Happening Right Now
Mohammed Jawad RNS
Julian for Everyone
Matthew J. Milliner Comment
The Long Road to Blessings
Rabbi Yossy Goldman Jewish News Syndicate
Report: Taliban Law Erases Religious Freedom, Targets Women
CNA
Religious Community on Cape Cod Sued for Alleged Child Labor
Boston Globe
Denzel Washington Says Faith Matters More Than Followers
Fox News


Wednesday, August 20
‘I Want to Try and Get to Heaven’: Trump Gets Reflective on ‘Fox & Friends’
NYT
Settlement to Problem Does Not Admit Solution
David DesRosiers JNS
Mormon Women Can Wear New Sacred Undergarments. Why Now?
C. Hulet NPR
Pluralism in the Pew
William McKenzie George W. Bush Presidential Center
Iran’s Strategic Shift to Iraq and the Crisis for Religious Minorities
Providence
Douglas Wilson’s America
Michael Reneau & Mark Tooley The Dispatch
The Danger of Respectable Christianity
Stephen G. Adubato Mere Orthodoxy
Confessions of a Reluctant Church Volunteer
Jen Hemphill Christianity Today
Leo Tolstoy’s Search for the Meaning of Life
Gary Saul Morson Wall Street Journal
The Absolute Absurdity of a Christian Nation
Jason G. Edwards Plough
Raising Children With Religion: Why Some Adults Return to Faith
Deseret
Making Sense of Court's Establishment Clause Doctrine
K. Walsh Civitas Institute


Thursday, August 21
Judge Blocks Some TX Schools From Displaying Ten Commandments
WaPost
Pope Leo Must Stand Up to Muslim Immigrants Seeking to Remake Europe
NYP
With the Dalai Lama’s Succession Looming, Xi Jinping Visits Tibet
NYT
Dan Patrick’s Religious Chauvinism Can Not Be Tolerated
MSNBC
7,000 Christians Have Been Killed in Nigeria This Year, Group Says
Newsweek
Tensions Flare Over Trans Rights and Religious Freedom Collide
USA Today
Trump Comments About Heaven Spark Debate Over Salvation, Good Works
CP
The Transcendent Absence
Brian Nuckols RealClearReligion
Trump’s Religious Freedom Memo Is Good News for Christian Nationalists
Soj.
Jesus is THE Faithful Jew
Gideon Lazar Crisis
Fighting Antisemitism by Reclaiming the American Jewish Story
Jewish Journal
The Sublime Terror of the Blue Angels
James Diddams Providence
Epis. Church Removes Priest Who Founded Christian Psychedelic Society
RNS
Immigration Policy Is Hurting Rural Catholic Ministry
R. Wessman First Things
After 800 Yrs, St. Francis' 'Canticle of Creatures' Still Offers Radical Vision
NCR


Friday, August 22
Erasing Christianity from American History
Mark Bauerlein First Things
Can World Peace Get Donald Trump Into Heaven?
Mark Haas Crisis
Chatting With AI ‘Saints’ — Opportunity or Peril?
Jonah McKeown NCRegister
Five Baha’i Lessons for a Happier Life
Arthur C. Brooks The Atlantic
A Conservative Vision of God, Man, and Society in India
T.B. Joseph Acton Institute
Pope Leo XIV Poised to Make Lebanon His First Foreign Visit
Catholic Herald
Only Genuine Compassion Will Do
The Dalai Lama Lion’s Roar
Aquinas’s Defense of Textualism
James R. Rogers Law & Liberty
The Millennial Saint
Vanessa R. Corcoran Commonweal
When Religious Institutions Obstruct Justice
Herb Montgomery Social Jesus
Died: James Dobson, Who Taught Evangelicals to Focus on Family
CToday
An Encouraging Pro-Life Victory
Jerry Newcombe RealClearReligion
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