RealClearReligion Week of September 22, 2025 Archives

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Monday, September 22
Erika Kirk Forgives Her Husband's Killer: 'It's What Christ Did'
Ryan Foley CPost
At Kirk Service, an Extraordinary Fusion of Government and Christianity
NYT
Trump Officials Praise Kirk’s Faith, Mark on Conservative Movement
RNS
The Evangelical Christian Faith on Display at Kirk's Memorial
NPR
China Cracks Down On Use of Live-Streaming and AI to Sell Religion
FTimes
The Calendar: When Did We Begin Counting from Creation?
Sacha Stern The Torah
A Rosh Hashanah Message: ‘Be Nice’
Rabbi Yossy Goldman Jewish News Syndicate
What We Know About Pope Leo’s First Encyclical, Apostolic Exhortation?
Pillar
Was Garden of Eden Real? Here’s What Archaeologists Think
C. Moss NatGeo
Silent Retreats are Surging in Popularity. Religion is Optional.
Ben Brasch WaPo
Algeria’s Tense Dance Between Heritage And Religious Freedom
Rel. Unplugged
How Common Phrases Rooted in Bible Can Encourage Bible Reading
Townhall


Tuesday, September 23
Christianity After Charlie Kirk
Ross Douthat The New York Times
JD Vance’s Sharp-Elbowed Theology
Tony Badran Tablet Magazine
Mercy, Yes, But Justice Too
J. Budziszewski First Things
America’s Josiah Moment
Richard Pearson RealClearReligion
Kate Carl and the Culture of War
Mark Christensen VoegelinView
Martyrdom and Sterilized Saints
Bart Gingerich Juicy Ecumenism
Survey Reveals Americans’ Contradictory Beliefs About God, Church
Unplugged
When Liberals Decry Thoughts and Prayers
Mark Silk Religion News Service
Japan's Shinto Shrine Rebuilt Every 20 Yrs for More Than Millennium
AP News
Antisemites are Trying to Hijack Charlie Kirk’s Legacy
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS
Doug Wilson Is Not a Prophet
Jeremy Sexton Mere Orthodoxy
The 1531 Project: A Distinct, Catholic View of American History
CWReport
How St. Joan of Arc Won Mark Twain’s Skeptical Heart
Patrick J. Walsh NCRegister


Wednesday, September 24
Are Religious People Happier Than The Non-Religious?
R. Burge Religion Unplugged
Sen. Durbin Is Unfit to Receive Any Catholic Honor
Thomas J. Paprocki First Things
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy: Calling Men to Protect in Marriage and Fatherhood
RCR
For High Holidays, Rabbis Brace For Discussions on Gaza, Politics
F. André RNS
America at the Edge of Awakening
Greg Schlueter Crisis
Corpus Christi
Ellen Wayland-Smith Commonweal
God's Not All Powerful. And Here's Why That's Good
Tyler Huckabee Sojourners
For Disillusioned Christian Youth, Charlie Kirk Showed a Path Forward
RCR
Kierkegaard Is for the Deconstructor
Haley Byrd Wilt Christianity Today
Decoy Enlightenment
Matthew J. Milliner & Ashley Lande Comment
Pope Names Successor For Embattled New Orleans Archbishop
N. Winfield AP
As a New Year Begins, a Rabbi Reflects on High Tension Among Jews
NYTimes
Lighting a Fire and Carrying the Torch
Pastor Samuel Rodriguez RealClearReligion


Thursday, September 25
We Need to Think Straight About God and Politics
David Brooks The New York Times
Armenia’s Ancient Christian Faith Under Attack
David A. Grigorian RealClearReligion
Video: Charlie Kirk's Death Sparks Increase in Religious Practice
Fox News
Erika Kirk and America’s Religious Revival
Maya Sulkin The Free Press
Do Animals Go to Heaven?
R. Jared Staudt Catholic World Report
The Freedom to Speak and the Duty to Listen
David F. Forte Civitas Institute
Black Christians Confront Charlie Kirk’s Religious Legacy
Washington Post
Bari Weiss or Protestant Franco: Which Way, Western Man?
J Diddams First Things
Study Finds Gaps in Psychological Screening of Priesthood Candidates
CNA
Caring for Poor is Not Enough — They Need Advocacy Too
John Berry NCReporter
Will the Big Bang Go Pop?
Richard Smith Acton Institute
Man Spared Jail Over Attacking Quran-Burning Protester
BBC News
Found in the Cosmos: Holiness and the Therapeutic
Drake Osborn Mere Orthodoxy
What It Means to Forgive Our Enemies and What It Doesn’t
Auguste Meyrat Crisis
Three Companions of Saint Francis
Elizabeth Goudge Plough
Sister Jean, Chaplain and March Madness Icon, Retires at 106
AP News


Friday, September 26
The Charlie Effect: How Political Murder Sparked Religious Awakening
Times
Hillary Clinton Blames White Men of 'Certain Religion' For Doing 'Damage'
CPost
How the West Lost Its Soul
Paul Kingsnorth The Free Press
We Shouldn’t Assassinate Conservatives or Kill Embryos
Matt Lamb The College Fix
Durbin Should Not Be Honored by the Catholic Church
K. Lopez National Review
The Psychological Value of Repentance
Lauren Jackson The New York Times
Candace Owens Is a Latter-Day Gnostic
Josh Appel Wall Street Journal
Danny Kruger’s Christian Humanism
Carl R. Trueman First Things
The De Gasperi Method
John T. McGreevy Commonweal
Make Satan Illegal Again
Kennedy Hall Crisis
Moses Unbound
Chaim Steinmetz Jewish Journal
Jews Engaged in Jewicide
Yisrael Medad Jewish News Syndicate
The Rapture was a Bust, But Still Feels Like Doomsday
Brittany Luse NPR
Vatican Prosecutors Suffer Loss as Tribunal Says Appeal is Inadmissible
AP
Voddie Baucham Jr., Black pastor and Seminary Leader, Dies at 56
RNS
Christians Shouldn’t Burn the Quran. They Should Read It
Michael Woolf Sojourners
Violence Should Be the Line in the Sand
Jerry Newcombe RealClearReligion
Preparing for Revival: Identifying a Work of the Spirit of God
Robb Brunansky RCR
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