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Sigal Samuel What It Takes To Make Saudi Islam ‘Moderate’
Can you curb religious fundamentalism by “eliminating fake and extremist texts”?
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Mohammad Ponir Hossain / Reuters The Muslim Overpopulation Myth That Just Won’t Die
The claim that Muslims have "too many children" is reliably powerful anywhere there's a sizable Muslim immigrant or minority population.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Why Notre Dame Reversed Course on Contraception
The Catholic university is caught between accommodating a diverse community and defending what it sees as religious freedom.
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Reuters The Particular Horror of Church Shootings
Twenty-six people were killed in an attack in Sutherland Springs, Texas, adding to the long list of houses of worship hit with gun violence.
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Hilary Swift The Quiet Religious-Freedom Fight That Is Remaking America
A federal law was supposed to put an end to the use of local zoning laws as tools of discrimination. It hasn't.
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Courtesy of the Archives of the Chicago Province … There Are More Black Catholics in the U.S. Than Members of the A.M.E. Church
How black Americans defy religious stereotypes—and navigate race relations in historically white, European spaces.
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Silke Schurack / Joshua Roberts / Reuters / … What To Do When Racists Try To Hijack Your Religion
White supremacists are coopting Norse heathen symbols. Should the heathens ignore them? Protest them? Create a new theology?
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Mike Segar/ Reuters Why Liberty University Kicked an Anti-Trump Christian Author Off Campus
Jonathan Martin was removed by armed campus police officers and told never to return.
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Mohammed Salem / Reuters The Islamic World Doesn't Need a Reformation
Why a Muslim John Locke would be much more useful than a Muslim Martin Luther
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Max Rossi / Reuters / Katie Martin / … Why Can’t Christians Get Along, 500 Years After the Reformation?
Martin Luther left behind a rich legacy of protest and reform. But the global church still isn’t over the fractures he helped create.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters ‘One Way We Push Back Against Evil Is Through the Leaders We Elect’
Pastor Robert Jeffress talks about his support for Donald Trump—and why Christians have an obligation to be involved in politics.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Mike Pence Promises to Defend Christians in the Middle East
The vice president announced that the administration will shift aid from the United Nations to the U.S. Agency for International Development. He’ll also visit the region in late December.
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David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters When Can Private Entities Censor Speech?
Trump’s pressure on the NFL to censor its players is a First Amendment issue.
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Jani Salonkangas / ICEJ White Evangelicals Used to Dominate Christian Zionism, but Not Anymore
Why thousands of Christians from across the globe travel to Jerusalem each year to celebrate a Jewish holiday
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Annika Larsson The Strangely Revealing Debate Over Viking Couture
An archeological discovery has raised questions about Muslims’ influence on Europe.
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Jon Herskovitz / Reuters How American Politics Became So Exhausting
In a new book, the writer Alan Jacobs looks at why it’s impossible for people who disagree to hold a civilized conversation.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters How 'Evil' Became a Conservative Buzzword
The left and right rely on different moral languages in the wake of tragedies like the Las Vegas shooting.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters The Case for 'Thoughts and Prayers'—Even If You Don't Believe in God
After a tragedy like a mass shooting, prayer is not an indulgent retreat from reality, but a responsible reaction to it.
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Pascal Deloche / Getty How America Changed Its Approach to Political Islam
The view from Washington has shifted a lot over the decades.
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters The Fight for Abortions in Ireland
As the country prepares to hold a referendum on abortion, religiously-motivated opposition to it may be on the wane.
