RealClearReligion

When I was going through school, the devil was presented to us as a myth, a literary device, a symbolic manner of signaling the presence of... Read More

Pope Francis & the Death Penalty

W. David Montgomery, RealClearReligion

On August 2, Pope Francis revised the official Catechism of the Catholic Church to state that the death penalty was... Read More

Department of Justice Steps Up to Protect Religious Liberty

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, RealClearReligion

Attorney General Jeff Session’s Department of Justice has assumed an important leadership role in protecting and promoting religious... Read More

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The Hillbilly Thomists

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Should the Church Rethink the Merits of Free Markets?

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One Congregation. Two Countries.

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The Supreme Court's Big Announcements on Religion

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The McCarrick Mess

Robert Barron, Word on Fire

When I was going through school, the devil was presented to us as a myth, a literary device, a symbolic manner of signaling the presence of... Read More

Willow Creek Church Scandal Stuns Evangelical World

Laurie Goodstein, NYT

The sudden resignation of Willow Creek Community Church's top leaders following sexual harassment allegations against Rev. Bill Hybels, their... Read More

Christians Did Not Destroy the Classical World

Richard Tada, National Review

In what we would now regard as an excess of zeal, some Christians in the fourth and fifth centuries a.d. took to demolishing... Read More

American Muslim Women Don't Need You to Save Them

Dalia Mogahed, USA Today

The latest iteration of the so-called “Muslim ban” was upheld by the Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling, leading many... Read More

Hollywood Confronts Anti-Semitism

Alexander Aciman, Tablet Magazine

One of the most nuanced conversations about post-war American anti-Semitism came in the form of a film. In 1947 Elia Kazan... Read More

Is the Catholic Worker a 'Racist Institution'?

Maria Benevento, Nat. Catholic Reporter

Is the Catholic Worker movement a "racist institution"?Members of the movement have been grappling with that question with particular... Read More

Evangelicals Urge White House to Raise Refugee Admissions

Carol Kuruvilla, HP

Seven evangelical Christian organizations have jointly criticized the Trump administration for allowing refugee resettlement to hit a... Read More

Boris Johnson's Comments Push Muslims to Reassert Identity

Nilufar Ahmed, TC

Boris Johnson's inflammatory remarks about women who wear the burqahave sparked outrage and fierce debate on an issue that was already... Read More

'Ministering' Is All the Rage Now in Mormonism

Robert Kirby, Salt Lake Tribune

It's only been a few months, but I'm already sick of the word “ministering.” This, of course, refers to the change in the... Read More

A Buddhism Critic Goes on a Silent Buddhist Retreat

John Horgan, SciAm

I've been hard on Buddhism over the years (see for example my critique of the recent bestseller Why Buddhism Is True). But I like... Read More

Courting the Catholic Vote

Leslie Tentler, Commonweal Magazine

We will never know how many Catholics voted for Donald Trump. Suffice it to say that, whatever the number, it was uncomfortably large. Nor... Read More

Who Are the Sikhs and What Are Their Beliefs?

Simran Jeet Singh, Religion News

New Jersey's first Sikh attorney general, Gurbir Singh Grewal, was a target of disparaging remarks recently. Two radio hosts... Read More

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Videos

The Hillbilly Thomists

Buzzfeed

Should the Church Rethink the Merits of Free Markets?

Buzzfeed

One Congregation. Two Countries.

Buzzfeed

The Supreme Court's Big Announcements on Religion

Buzzfeed

A Protestant Understanding of England's Martyrs

Hidden in the northern suburbs of Oxford are the last traces of a path first trodden by multitudes of country folk hurrying to see the burning of the Protestant martyrs Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley on October 16, 1555, and trudging home afterward.For some years I lived very close to this track, and after dark I would imagine all those figures bustling past in their gray-and-brown homespun, the Read More

Houses of Worship

When Small-Town Pastors Put Down Roots

I pull into the tiny town of Bloom in western Kansas, tires crunching gravel like war rubble, and step out beside the paired ruins of the Bloom School and the Lighthouse Baptist Church. All that's left of the school is its prodigious concrete arch, cracked foundation slabs, and some rebar gnarling the air. The church is just a stone front and back. A sign over the door reads: Bloom Youth Center. Read More