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Ammar Awad / Reuters Trump Did Not Bring Jerusalem Crashing Down
In the Palestinian area of the city, many people just want to get on with their lives.
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Abdelrahman Younis / Reuters Palestinians Are Facing Their Worst Fears About America
No help is coming.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Finally, a President Who Looks at Jerusalem Logically
It’s just too bad Trump left out one important detail.
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Ammar Awad / Reuters The Jerusalem Announcement Won't Really Hurt America's Arab Alliances
Don’t make the mistake of assuming that Muslim-majority countries are in any real sense “pro-Muslim.”
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Mohammed Salem / Reuters Trump's Jerusalem Plan Is a Deadly Provocation
The decision to recognize the city as Israel's capital increases the odds of violence because it deepens Palestinian despair.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters You Can Be an Evangelical and Reject Trump's Jerusalem Decision
Conservative evangelicals may see the embassy move as in line with their reading of scripture. But there’s more than one way to read scripture—and more than one scripture to read.
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Regis Duvignau / Reuters The Rebirth of America's Pro-Natalist Movement
Activists on the right and left want policies that will reverse the country’s baby bust. But the broader culture—and Congress—don’t seem to care.
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Ammar Awad / Reuters The Trump Administration Says It's Bowing to 'Simple Truth' on Jerusalem
But the reality will be much more complicated.
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Ammar Awad / Reuters ‘Jerusalem Is Not the Explosive Device—It’s the Detonator’
President Trump’s announcement on the status of the holy city could spark a crisis across the Middle East.
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Max Rossi / Reuters The Pope's Impossible Choice in Burma
Speaking out on behalf of the Muslim minority—which the pontiff failed to do—might have endangered the Christian minority.
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Mohammed Huwais / AFP / Getty The 'Softer' Side of Jihadists
Weeping, reciting poetry, singing hymns—these are all part of jihadi culture. Does appreciating that culture risk downplaying the militants’ barbarity?
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Amr Dalsh / Reuters The Dangerous Myths About Sufi Muslims
Detractors and admirers alike embrace the same misunderstandings.
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters How Hindu Nationalists Politicized the Taj Mahal
“The challenge to the Indian-ness of the Taj Mahal is a challenge to the Indian-ness of Muslims”
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters Jordan's 'Holy War on Dogs'
The fatwa to kill wasn’t real, but the consequences were.
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Amr Dalsh Misunderstanding the Victims of the Sinai Massacre
“To describe Sufis as ‘tolerant’ and ‘pluralistic’ may be true, but doing so presupposes that non-Sufi Muslims aren’t tolerant or pluralistic.”
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Museum That Places the Bible at the Heart of America’s Identity
The new facility tells a national story through the lens of the holy book.
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Bettmann / Getty The Dark and Divisive History of America’s Thanksgiving Hymn
How a beloved song with origins in 16th-century Europe captures both a holiday’s spirit of unity and a country’s legacy of exclusion
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Now It's Liberal States Clashing With the Federal Government Over Religious Freedom
California, Pennsylvania, and others have sued over new policies on contraceptive coverage.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters What's Missing from the Museum of the Bible
The case for including Arabic—and Islam
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Marvin Gentry Christian Support for Roy Moore ‘Looks Like Hypocrisy to the Outside World’
Recent allegations against the aspiring Alabama senator fit a long and complicated history of religious debates about sex.
