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Josh Shank / Rocket Republic Will the Pro-Life Movement Split With Trump on Issues Other Than Abortion?
The president has quickly moved to restrict abortion. He has also curtailed access for refugees and jeopardized health care for millions of Americans.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters These Pro-Lifers Are Headed to the Women’s March on Washington
Is there room in the movement for people who morally object to abortion?
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Chelsea Beck Seeking an Escape From Trump’s America
Why some people are withdrawing from mainstream society into “intentional communities”—and what the rest of the country can learn from them
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Savo Prelevic / AFP / Getty Can Evangelicals Help Trump Thaw Relations With Russia?
They were Ronald Reagan’s allies during the Cold War. But some now want the president-elect to build bridges with Vladimir Putin.
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Bullit Marquez / AP The Procession of the Black Nazarene
On January 9, hundreds of thousands of Catholic devotees in Manila, Philippines, took part in a barefoot procession lasting 22 hours, carrying a centuries-old icon of Jesus Christ through the streets.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Coming Soon to the U.S. Army: Turbans, Beards, Hijabs, and Dreadlocks
In the final days of the Obama administration, the military has issued new guidelines for religious accommodations and dress.
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Charles Dharapak / AP Why Christians Are Disproportionately Powerful in Congress
The U.S. is becoming more diverse in terms of faith, but its legislature isn’t. A major reason? Non-religious Americans' voting rates.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters 'He Was the Nationalist Candidate'
The editor of First Things on Donald Trump and the limits of multi-cultural democracy
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David Goldman, Richard Drew, Steve Helber, Chuck Burton … The Year in Religion and Politics
Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of 2016—from religious-liberty bills to Donald Trump's polarizing effect on evangelicals.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Democrats Have a Religion Problem
A conversation with Michael Wear, a former Obama White House staffer, about the party’s illiteracy on and hostility toward white evangelicals
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Patrick Semansky / AP The Religious-Liberty Showdowns Coming in 2017
From mosque surveillance to new religious-exemption laws, a look at some of the issues likely to come up under Trump
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Osservatore Romano / Reuters Martin Scorsese’s Radical Act of Turning Theology Into Art
Rarely do mainstream films treat religious questions with seriousness and specificity. Silence, a movie about 17th-century Jesuit missionaries, shows what that can look like.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Ohio’s New Abortion Bill Is a Sign of Battles to Come
Governor John Kasich vetoed a controversial provision that would have banned the procedure after a fetal heartbeat could be detected. This is just the beginning.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Supreme Court Case That Could Bankrupt Religious Schools and Hospitals
Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton pits financially strained organizations against their own workers, who fear their promised pensions may not be there when they retire.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Is Bringing Progressive Protestants Back to Church
Some mainline congregations have seen a bump in attendance since the election. But the most powerful changes to come may be theological.
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Elise Amendola / AP Should Anti-Trump Evangelicals Leave the Movement?
Members disillusioned by support for the president-elect can more easily effect change if they stay put.
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Library of Congress Jews and the Social Construction of Race
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters How Muslims Defined American 'Cool'
A conversation with the Purdue University professor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, whose new book documents the connection between Islam and hip-hop culture in the United States
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Why White Evangelicals Are Feeling Hopeful About Trump
They’re worried about poverty, hunger, drug addiction, and the “softness” of the country. And they’ve got high expectations for their president.
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USA Today Sports / Reuters Tom Brady, Sociologist of Religion
A new documentary series, co-produced by the quarterback, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra, is a surprisingly meditative look at the way sports give people a sense of meaning in life.
