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Christianity and the West, Part II
Daniel Mahoney, The American Mind
It’s Time to Add Old Testament Saints to the Liturgical Calendar
NCRegister
Iranian Christians Should Not Be Detained While Seeking Asylum
M. Capone, FT
The Christian in a Therapeutic Age
Ian Harber, Mere Orthodoxy
Be Honest About Your Motives for Mission Trips
Matthew Loftus, Christianity Today
Pope's Desire for ‘Flatmates’ Offers Valuable Lesson to All Catholics
C. Herald
Why Religious Groups are Pushing for Psychedelics as Sacrament
Conversation
Mumbai’s Pigeon-Feeding Rules Aren’t Going Over Well
Suhasini Raj et al, NYTimes
Rabbis Criticize Israeli Government for Gaza
Mark Silk, Religion News Service
To Make the Academic Desert Bloom, Look to Religion
Ari Berman, Mosaic
Ken Paxton Orders TX Schools to Display Ten Commandments
Ryan Foley, CPost
Francis, the Romantic Pope
Antonio Spadaro, Commonweal
Katrina 20th Anniversary: Recalling How Christian Groups Helped Millions
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All Eyes on Vance as Turmoil Over Gutting USAID Grows
Amid a raging, mainly partisan battle over President Trump’s plans to slash foreign aid, Vice President J.D. Vance is set to address a summit of religious leaders and advocates looking to him fo...
Sec. Rubio Should Build on the Commission on Unalienable Rights
On Jan. 20, in his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump reiterated his determination to “make America great again.” America’s founding affirmation of and the nation&rsquo...
U.S. Must Acknowledge and Address Religious Persecution in Nigeria
Last month in Nigeria, Christians were confronted with yet another reminder of the ongoing threats they face in their own communities. In August, “more than 70 Nigerian Christians were killed an...
Don’t Forget the Victims of Persecution in Nigeria
Four years ago this month, a young Nigerian Sufi musician named Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. His trial had taken just a few months, and he had no lawyer to defe...

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An Encouraging Pro-Life Victory

Jerry Newcombe, RealClearReligion

I’ve been involved in the pro-life movement long enough to see progress and regress, setbacks and positive developments. Here’s a... Read More

The Transcendent Absence

Brian Nuckols, RealClearReligion

The resurrection, that cardinal promise upon which Christianity stakes its claim to ultimate meaning, betrays what may constitute the... Read More

More Than Meets the Eye

Andrew Fowler, RealClearReligion

The world is more than meets the eye — and so is the Eucharist. Both invite us to wonder and expand our understanding of reality. Yet... Read More

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Christianity and the West, Part II

Daniel Mahoney, The American Mind

Americans and Catholics alike have much to learn about the deep roots of “the moral structure of freedom” St. John Paul II articulated. Read More

It’s Time to Add Old Testament Saints to the Liturgical Calendar

NCRegister

Elevating the Old Testament saints would enhance the Catholic sense of the unity of Scripture and serve as a timely reminder that God’s... Read More

Iranian Christians Should Not Be Detained While Seeking Asylum

M. Capone, FT

ICE began detaining Iranian asylum seekers after the bombing of Iran’s nuclear refinement facilities on June 22. Among them is Shabnam... Read More

The Christian in a Therapeutic Age

Ian Harber, Mere Orthodoxy

There have been numerous pieces published by secular media outlets and influencers lately warning of the rise of “therapy speak.”... Read More

Be Honest About Your Motives for Mission Trips

Matthew Loftus, Christianity Today

As a missionary, I am often asked about short-term mission trips: Are they harmful? Can they be better? Were we wrong when we were trying to... Read More

Pope's Desire for ‘Flatmates’ Offers Valuable Lesson to All Catholics

C. Herald

Jesus promised believers that they would experience a fountain of Living Water welling up in them, giving eternal life, and the Holy Spirit... Read More

Why Religious Groups are Pushing for Psychedelics as Sacrament

Conversation

Texas passed a landmark law in June 2025, supported by former Gov. Rick Perry, that allocates US$50 million to support research on... Read More

Mumbai’s Pigeon-Feeding Rules Aren’t Going Over Well

Suhasini Raj et al, NYTimes

Pigeons are often seen as an unavoidable feature of the urban landscape, and bans on feeding them around the world, from Trafalgar Square in... Read More

Rabbis Criticize Israeli Government for Gaza

Mark Silk, Religion News Service

Last week, a few score Orthodox Jewish rabbis joined a growing number of rabbinic groups in expressing distress at the situation in... Read More

To Make the Academic Desert Bloom, Look to Religion

Ari Berman, Mosaic

The great American university is in decline. With decreasing enrollment, ideological polarization, and an erosion of public trust, the very... Read More

Ken Paxton Orders TX Schools to Display Ten Commandments

Ryan Foley, CPost

Texas' attorney general is ordering nearly all school districts in the state to ensure they have copies of the Ten Commandments in their... Read More

Francis, the Romantic Pope

Antonio Spadaro, Commonweal

The relationship between faith and reason has long been a load-bearing column of Catholic intellectual life. The idea that these two... Read More

Katrina 20th Anniversary: Recalling How Christian Groups Helped Millions

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Twenty years after Katrina’s landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, the hurricane remains one of the biggest disasters in American history: 1,392... Read More

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All Eyes on Vance as Turmoil Over Gutting USAID Grows
Amid a raging, mainly partisan battle over President Trump’s plans to slash foreign aid, Vice President J.D. Vance is set to address a summit of religious leaders and advocates looking to him fo...
Sec. Rubio Should Build on the Commission on Unalienable Rights
On Jan. 20, in his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump reiterated his determination to “make America great again.” America’s founding affirmation of and the nation&rsquo...
U.S. Must Acknowledge and Address Religious Persecution in Nigeria
Last month in Nigeria, Christians were confronted with yet another reminder of the ongoing threats they face in their own communities. In August, “more than 70 Nigerian Christians were killed an...
Don’t Forget the Victims of Persecution in Nigeria
Four years ago this month, a young Nigerian Sufi musician named Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. His trial had taken just a few months, and he had no lawyer to defe...

RCReligion Analysis

An Encouraging Pro-Life Victory

Jerry Newcombe, RealClearReligion

I’ve been involved in the pro-life movement long enough to see progress and regress, setbacks and positive developments. Here’s a... Read More

The Transcendent Absence

Brian Nuckols, RealClearReligion

The resurrection, that cardinal promise upon which Christianity stakes its claim to ultimate meaning, betrays what may constitute the... Read More

More Than Meets the Eye

Andrew Fowler, RealClearReligion

The world is more than meets the eye — and so is the Eucharist. Both invite us to wonder and expand our understanding of reality. Yet... Read More

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How Church Became Theater & the Evangelical Imagination
On The Allure of Tribalism
How the Bible Revolutionized Politics
Culture Matters: The Power of Prayer and Pilgrimage

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Ken Paxton Orders TX Schools to Display Ten Commandments

Ryan Foley, Christian Post

Texas' attorney general is ordering nearly all school districts in the state to ensure they have copies of the Ten Commandments in their classrooms by next week. This follows a judge's court order preventing a law mandating the historical document's placement in classrooms from going into effect in some school districts.  In a statement on Monday, Republican Attorney General Ken Pax... Read More

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Katrina 20th Anniversary: Recalling How Christian Groups Helped Millions

Marvin Olasky, Religion Unplugged

Twenty years after Katrina’s landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, the hurricane remains one of the biggest disasters in American history: 1,392 deaths, and damage of about $200 billion (in 2025 dollars). This will be a week of remembrance in New Orleans. We’ll probably hear a lot about the scope of the loss and the failures in response, including how journalistic credibility suffered damage.... Read More

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Can You Take Religion Out of the Camino?

Liz Bucar, Broadview Magazine

Last year, almost half a million pilgrims arrived in Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. Their destination: the medieval cathedral where, legend has it, the bones of St. James the Apostle are entombed. About 47 percent of those who made the journey did so for purely religious reasons, according to statistics released by the Pilgrim’s Reception Office. But why did the rest choose ... Read More

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