Conservatives are increasingly embracing a version of religious freedom that’s designed to sow unnecessary divisions in society.

A TNR Live discussion on how the religious right’s well-funded strategists are aiming at Trump voters in 2024, and how we can stop them

Too many American churches are financial black holes. No wonder their pews are empty.

A burgeoning new field of spiritual counseling promises to cleanse the faithful of far-right religious ideas. But is this just swapping one kind of snake oil with another?

Hernan Cortes, Captain Cook, and Prince Philip were each worshiped as deities—with very different consequences.

After FBI informant Craig Monteilh failed to unearth extremism in Orange County mosques, he became an asset in local Muslims’ lawsuit against the agency. Now the Supreme Court will weigh in.

How the secular movement underestimated the endurance of religion.

For years, his work has been marked by his creeping fear that the world is in need of an urgent intervention—and why not from him?

The French showed this week why the U.S. Congress needs to launch a commission on clergy sexual abuse of minors.

As anti-vax plaintiffs seek faith-based exemptions, the judicial system will renew its struggle to determine what beliefs are truly “sincerely held.”

Nonfiction narratives that purport to explain life in Islam’s far-flung capitals paper over the brutal hand of U.S. foreign policy.

The bishops’ shameful resolution to deny communion to the president is hypocritical and out of step with Catholic public opinion.

Across the country, right-wing Catholic clerics are weaponizing their rites to own the libs.

A labor fight at Saint Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts reveals how massive health systems use weak religious affiliations as cover for toxic practices, from unions to reproductive health.

Left-leaning people of faith will never be reliable allies of the Democratic Party, nor will the party reliably offer them a comfortable home. But their fortunes are linked.

Under the guise of “religious liberty,” the conservative justices are privileging certain Americans at the expense of the rest of us.

Meet the “exvangelicals” seeking therapy for religious trauma.

Its embrace of an ignominious president is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with the movement’s embrace of white supremacy and illiberal politics.

A schism in the faith between liberals and conservatives is being exacerbated by a group of plutocrats.

As the Georgia runoffs descend into attacks on the Reverend Raphael Warnock’s faith, the right’s long-simmering antipathy for Black theological traditions is swinging into view.