RealClearReligion Week of January 19, 2026 Archives

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Monday, January 19
We Have Not Read MLK Enough
Haleluya Hadero Christianity Today
Meeting Martin Luther King Jr.
Victor Davis Hanson Philanthropy Daily
Mob Storms MN Church to Target Pastor They Say Has ICE Ties
NYPost
NH Bishop Warns Clergy to Prepare for 'New Era of Martyrdom'
AP News
Why Do Men Leave the Priesthood?
Jonah McKeown National Catholic Register
The Great Christian Reset
Jonathon Van Maren First Things
The Real Reason Modern Life Feels Empty
Fr. Mike Schmitz & Arthur Brooks Ascension
TX Schools Wait as Law on Ten Commandments Reaches Appeals Court
NYT
Anton Chekhov’s Longing for Faith
Gary Saul Morson Wall Street Journal
Iran, the Quran, and the West
Marcus Peter Catholic World Report
The Exodus Is Not Really about Israel Leaving Egypt
Prof. Safwat Marzouk The Torah
David is Trending in Christian Pop Culture. Why Jews Should Join In
ToI
The Pulitzer Incentivizes Bad Journalism
Ian Schwartz RealClearPolitics
The Best of St. Paul
Myra Kahn Adams Townhall
The Many Deaths of Liberalism
David G. Bonagura Jr. Law & Liberty
Those Hideous Stewards of Beauty
Sergio Bermudez Plough
Court Case May Decide Fate of Religious Symbols in Public Buildings
CPost
The Upside-Down Kingdom of Jesus of Nazareth
Jordan J. Ballor The Acton Institute
Renee Good’s Dignity
Heidi Schlumpf Commonweal


Tuesday, January 20
Anti-ICE Protest at MN Church Latest Flash Point Over Trump’s Crackdown
WP
Desecration in MN and Ecclesiology of Public Worship
James R. Wood First Things
How West Became Hostile Environment for Jews
Joel Kotkin spiked
Will 2026 Be Crucial Year for Leo and Catholic Church?
Gaetano Masciullo Euro Con
President Trump’s Chosen Artist? A Christian Speed Painter.
Zachary Small NYT
What’s Happening Inside America's Churches?
Joseph Holmes Religion Unplugged
Can Josh Shapiro Rescue Dems From Left-Wing Antisemitism?
J. Tobin JNS
The Rise of MAGA Antisemitism Was Inevitable
Paul Kujawsky Jewish Journal
Gunmen Abduct Over 150 Worshippers From 3 Churches in Nigeria
AP News
Broglio: US Troops Could Refuse Greenland Orders
Michelle La Rosa The Pillar
The Gospel Is Good News Before It’s Good Advice
Peter Coelho Christianity Today
Why are 64% of American Churchgoers Wrong About Heaven?
Dan Delzell CPost
The Unity for Which Jesus Prayed
Msgr. Roger Landry National Catholic Register
Burning Baskets
Andrew Fowler RealClearReligion


Wednesday, January 21
‘God Is Very Proud’: Trump Marks Anniversary With a Victory Lap
NYTimes
Huckabee Issues Response to Concerns Over ‘Christian Zionism’
Crux
MN's Crises Demand Real Change, Not More Division
Bishop Robert Barron Fox
Don Lemon Likens Church Storming to Jesus Cleansing Temple
Jon Brown CPost
Christians Will Oppose Authorities No Matter What Romans 13 Says
M. Silk RNS
The Generational Collapse Of American Religion
Ryan Burge Religion Unplugged
When Words Mean Anything, They Mean Nothing(ness)
Kenneth Craycraft CWR
Leo and Trump Offer 2 American Visions of Power
Stan Chu Ilo NCReporter
Evangelizing in Silence
Randall Smith The Catholic Thing
Christians Provide Food, Medicine, & Spiritual Hope at Venezuela’s Border
CT
Every Pharaoh Must Go
Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback Jewish Journal
The Daniel Option: America’s Vocation Between Crusade and Retreat
Providence


Thursday, January 22
Catholicism Has Declined in Latin America Over the Past Decade
Pew
Religious Practice is Declining in Europe
Euronews
America’s Very Weird Religious Future
Ross Douthat et al The New York Times
Why I'm Not A "Christian Zionist"
Michael Knowles
Hare Krishna Group to File Lawsuit Over FL Prison Ban on Hindu Holy Text
RNS
KY Cathedral Called 'America's Notre Dame' Gets a Rehab
Peter Smith AP News
Jewish Prayer is Returning to the Temple Mount
Chaim Frankenhuis Times of Israel
Megyn’s Folly
Andrew D. Lappin Jewish News Syndicate
No, Infant Baptism Is Not Abuse
Carl R. Trueman First Things
Deathbed Conversions and Limits of Pascal’s Wager
Scott Ventureyra Crisis
Christian Nationalism Done Right Looks Like This
Richard Howell Christian Post
Greenland's Catholics Weighs Uncertainty as Global Tensions Rise
C. Barone NCR


Friday, January 23
It Makes Sense That People See A.I. as God
Joseph Bernstein The New York Times
The March for Life Should Send Vance a Tough Message
Daniel Lipinski The Pillar
AI Romance Is Perverse
A. Trevor Sutton Christianity Today
The Diversity of a Local Parish
Stephen G. Adubato Wall Street Journal
ICE is Forcing a Reckoning Among America’s Religious Leaders
Christian Paz Vox
Anti-ICE Protest at MN Church Leads to Arrests
Alanna Durkin Richer et al AP News
A President and the Eucharist
Andrew Fowler RealClearReligion
Hundreds of Clergy Descend on Minneapolis, Go On Lookout for ICE
RNS
Why are We All Exhausted? Genesis Gives a Clue
Delphine Chui The Catholic Herald
UPenn is Gaslighting Courts on Antisemitism
Jonathan Tobin Jewish News Syndicate
Christmas Nationalism
R. R. Reno First Things
The Post-Dobbs Era Demands Fresh Pro-Life Thinking
Alexandra DeSanctis NCR
Pope to US March for Life: Healthy Societies Protect Human Life
Vatican News
Resisting Anti-Jewish Ovations on Far-Right
Wendell Vinson RealClearReligion
Reflections on the Anniversary of “Roe v. Wade”
Jerry Newcombe RealClearReligion
Poll: Only 37% of Americans Identify as Pro-Life
Tyler Arnold Catholic News Agency
Eating Cake in Hitler’s House
Nette Berelson-Hatan Times of Israel
John L. Allen Jr, 1965-2026
Crux
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