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June 25, 2018
Sarah Jones
It’s mostly legal for Walgreens pharmacists to deny people drugs on ethical grounds.
June 15, 2018
Sarah Jones
Whom Would Jesus Lock Up?
Using the Bible to defend the government's most indefensible policies is a longstanding American tradition.
June 7, 2018
Sarah Jones
What’s Next for Evangelicalism?
Just as Trump has accelerated an identity crisis in his party, he has intensified growing divisions among evangelical Americans.
May 31, 2018
Sarah Jones
Paige Patterson is out of a job.
May 30, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Religious Right’s #MeToo Reckoning Is Coming
The Paige Patterson scandal just scratches the surface of a movement that has created a ripe environment for sexual harassment and abuse.
May 24, 2018
Sarah Jones
How American Christians Are Swaying Ireland’s Abortion Referendum
The vote could have immense repercussions for religious fights worldwide—and U.S. conservative groups aren’t sitting it out.
April 27, 2018
Sarah Jones
Inside the Spectacular Implosion of Religion News Service
The country’s leading religious news wire hired a new publisher in 2016. Then it all fell apart.
April 27, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Did Math Kill God?
A new book on Renaissance mathematics makes a bold case.
April 24, 2018
Sarah Jones
A Christian Awakening?
A new Netflix film dramatizes a schism that has become all the more relevant in the Trump era.
April 12, 2018
Win McCormack
Bhagwan’s Final Year
Farewell to a charlatan and false guru.
April 10, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Invisible Free Speech Crisis
Why is there so much focus on no-platforming at elite universities, when hundreds of colleges across America regularly suppress speech?
March 21, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Austin bombing suspect was a homeschooled Christian conservative.
March 6, 2018
Mark Oppenheimer
The Death of Civility in the Digital Age
I wrote a foolish take on Harvey Weinstein's Judaism, and was mobbed for days on social media. Then I rediscovered the joys of life offline, where humans treat each other with decency.
February 27, 2018
Emily Atkin
Scott Pruitt vs. The Pope
The EPA administrator has become the de facto spokesperson for a fringe version of Christian environmentalism.
February 22, 2018
Sarah Jones
Billy Graham’s Circus Left Him Behind
Graham transformed American evangelicalism—until it became almost unrecognizable.
February 21, 2018
Sarah Jones
Billy Graham, dead at age 99, transformed American Christianity and the Republican Party.
February 6, 2018
Sarah Jones
Pope Francis is embroiled in a major pedophile scandal.
January 25, 2018
Sarah Jones
Rod Dreher’s Race Problem
In wading into the “shithole” debate, Dreher betrays the dark side of his reverence for Western civilization.
January 19, 2018
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
How Religious Health Care Hurts Women of Color
A new study shows that restrictions at Catholic hospitals have a disproportionate racial impact.
January 12, 2018
Eric Armstrong
Mormonism’s Crisis of Faith
Backlash against an obituary of its late prophet Thomas S. Monson reveals the existential doubts gnawing at the modern church.
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