RealClearReligion Week of May 18, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 18
Trump-Backed Prayer Festival on National Mall Draws Thousands
WaPost
Vatican to Publish Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical May 25
EWTN News
Religion is ‘Back in Fashion’ in America. Here’s Why
John Blake CNN
Bishop Barron Slams 'Borderline Communists'
Peter Pinedo Fox News
Catholic Clergy Can Minister Within ICE Facility After a Legal Agreement
NYT
Does an LLM Hear Your Prayers?
Mary Julia Koch Wall Street Journal
Shabbat and 250 Years of a Nation of Faith and Liberty
Jonathan S. Tobin Jewish News Syndicate
Natural, Thus Universal, Human Rights
Casey Chalk The Acton Institute
People of the Chatbot
Jeffrey Bilbro Christianity Today
What the Old Testament Says About Food
Myra Kahn Adams Townhall
Liberalism and Christianity in the Age of Social Media
Mark Tooley Liberalism.org
Be Not Afraid! A Message from Father to Son on Graduation Day
AMAC


Tuesday, May 19
San Diego Community in Shock After Deadly Mosque Attack
Julie Yoon NYTimes
'Rededicate 250' Focus on Evangelical Christians is Un-American
USA Today
Feds Sue TX Chick-fil-A Franchisee For Religious Discrimination
Ian M. Giatti CP
Televangelist James Robison Dies at 82
Bob Smietana Religion News Service
How Religious Toleration for Irish Helped America Win Revolution
Providence
The Truth About Christian Hospitality
Sebastian Milbank First Things
Your Vocation Is Christ’s Call to Your Heart
Deacon Dominic Cerrato NCRegister
Cultural Shifts Drive Decline in U.S. Marriage Rates
Madalaine Elhabbal EWTN News
Awakenings: UFOs and Religion
Diana Walsh Pasulka Washington Post
The Blessed Virgin Mary and Political Life
Kenneth Craycraft Catholic World Report
Losing—and Recovering—Our Religion
Jason Bedrick Civitas Outlook
HHS Announces Restructuring of its Office for Civil Rights
HHS


Wednesday, May 20
What Jefferson and Madison Would've Thought About ‘Rededicating'
Conv.
The Evil of the San Diego Mosque Shooting
David Ingber The Free Press
How Christianity Took Center Stage on National Mall
Mariya Manzhos Deseret
Confession Isn’t Therapy
Thomas Petri First Things
Imam Blames Anti-Muslim Rhetoric For San Diego Attack
Washington Post
San Diego Mosque Shooting Victims Remembered as Men of Faith
U. Kuziez RNS
Christians, Jews and America
Dan Schnur Jewish Journal
Trump’s Revival of HHS Conscience Division Win For Religious Freedom
CPost
A Star-Spangled Search for Revival
Harvest Prude Christianity Today
Ida B. Wells's Public Faith
Case Thorp Mere Orthodoxy
‘The Real Thing’
Anthony Domestico Commonweal


Thursday, May 21
Have We Made Wellness a New Religion?
Delphine Chui The Catholic Herald
The Spirit Says No
Peter Coelho Christianity Today
God and the Jefferson Memorial
Jerry Newcombe RealClearReligion
Antizionism is Not “Criticism of Israel.” It’s Anti-Jewish Ideology.
Pamela Paresky
Giving Trump Credit When Due
Lawrence Siskind To Put It Bluntly
1700 Years After Nicaea: The Indian Church Unites to Defend the Faith
RCR
The Strange Religion of the American Podcast
Liel Leibovitz The Free Press
Why Christian Scholars Need the Psalms
John Ahern Mere Orthodoxy
‘You Have Chosen Us’
Eli Federman Jewish News Syndicate


Friday, May 22
Memorial Day: A Return to Hallowed Ground
Andrew J. Zwerneman Arts of Liberty
Cancer May Take My Life. It Won’t Take My Faith.
Megan Basham Washington Post
Gen Z’s Incompetent Converts
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
Video: Stephen Colbert on the Afterlife and Death
Breitbart News
Religious Persecution Underpins Anti-American Regimes
National Review
Bringing Fellowship to Those Behind Bars
Kevin Rush Philanthropy Daily
Why Racial and Religious Attacks Are Rising in Britain
Lizzie Dearden NYTimes
John Adams’s Providential Moses Moment
Jane Cook Providence
The Roberts Court and Religious Liberty
Adam Feldman First Liberty
The Prophet Micah on Trump's $1.8 Billion Fund for His Allies
A. Taylor Sojourners
Embodying Spirit
Peter J. Leithart First Things
Why is AI Company Anthropic Helping Launch Pope's Encyclical?
B. Roewe NCR
The End of Stephen Colbert’s Late-Night Abortion Advocacy
K. Lopez NR
From Secular Exclusion to Spiritual Exclusion
JT Young
God is Not Done With America – and America is Not Done With God
RCReligion
The Generosity Crisis Facing Churches and Ministries
Van Mylar RealClearReligion
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