In a move that seems indicative of the Trump administration’s increasingly fractured relationship with the Vatican, Pete Hegseth appeared to mistake lines from a classic crime film for Scripture during a public appearance this week.
TikTok politics and the rise of a cynical generation
Top Utah Republican Party leaders embraced a new generation of Gen Z political activists as the future of the conservative movement at a College Republicans event at the University of Utah last Friday.
Far-right Polish lawmaker draws outrage after calling Israel the ‘new Third Reich’
A far-right Polish lawmaker sparked outrage on Tuesday when, while speaking in parliament, he displayed a modified Israeli flag that replaced the Star of David with a blue swastika and called Israel “the new Third Reich.”
Why The Manosphere Has An Antisemitism Problem
Toward the end of Netflix’s “Into the Manosphere…
Jesus showed how to defy despots
Jesus was not a Christian. He was a Jew at odds with the official representatives of Jewish religious tradition. In his experience, the temple rituals of purification were defiling. Sacrificing birds and lambs, which had to be purchased with a…
Theologian NT Wright claims Adam and Eve were ‘human-like creatures,’ Jonah and the great fish a ‘folk tale’
Famed New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop Tom “N.T.” Wright says he’s not sure whether some of the most famous figures in the Holy Bible actually existed.
Joe Kent, Who Resigned Over the Iran War, is Not Your Ally
After resigning as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent’s resignation letter made the rounds in an unlikely way. His condemnation of the war on Iran was shared and welcomed across the political spectrum, including some on the Left….
A new book explores why the wellness industry has failed spiritual seekers
Increasingly, people are turning to these practices not just for physical benefits, but to find meaning outside of institutional religion. But according to Liz Bucar, a scholar in religious ethics at Northeastern University in Boston, the spiritual impact of these…
How debate about gender identity could undermine global efforts to protect victims of violence
Aided by the Trump administration, debate over gender identity has gone from being a touchstone of domestic culture wars to infiltrating the work of international groups – including those designed to protect vulnerable communities.
Vatican visitors slam Trump over attacks on the US-born pope’s message of peace
Inappropriate. Ridiculous. Absurd. Visitors to the Vatican on Tuesday had some choice words for U.S. President Donald Trump after his harsh criticism of Pope Leo XIV for his calls to soften the rhetoric of war.
These US Jews wanted to show solidarity with Palestinians. Israel deported them.
On the morning of March 24, Sophie Drukman-Feldstein, an American Jew and activist, was arrested and jailed for a simple gesture: Hissing at a flock of Jewish settlers’ sheep to get them to move off a Palestinian family’s land where…
“I Go to Church a Little Bit”
A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about folks who report that they attend religious services multiple times a week. They make up about 6–8% of the country, and they are a qualitatively different group than people who…