Before the religious right co-opted the issue, the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion worked to merge religion and reproductive rights.

The Council for National Policy, a secretive network of powerful conservatives, goes to great lengths to conceal its activities and even its members. But recently uncovered documents reveal the extent of the group’s influence on American politics.

The New Apostolic Reformation doesn’t always admit its own existence, but it’s growing in influence in the Republican Party.

He won’t rest until the Supreme Court enshrines religious freedom protections for a select minority of Americans—at the expense of everyone else.

The conservative bloc’s recent religious rulings went much further than merely obliterating the firewall between church and state.

The high court’s drive to radically redefine our Constitutional rights continues apace.

With a new president, and hard-won commitments for survivors of the sex abuse scandal that shook the faithful, the organization takes a first halting step toward healing.

America’s preeminent Protestant denomination is tearing itself apart over its leaders’ long-running cover-up of abusers in its ranks. But there’s a deeper reckoning that’s being avoided.

Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft decision, steeped in authoritarian strains of religious dogma, is a road map for further erosions of the liberties all Americans enjoy.

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.