Jenny Espino had bariatric surgery in 2006, when she was 20 years old and weighed 271 pounds. After the surgery, she lost over 100 pounds and maintained that weight loss until 2020, through the ups and downs of having children.
MLB warns players about altering uniforms after Giants pitchers add Bible verses on Pride Night
Major League Baseball has warned players about writing on their uniforms after San Francisco starter Landen Roupp and two other pitchers added Bible verses to their Pride Night caps last week.
Jon Ossoff called his newly minted GOP opponent an antisemite. Why?
After Rep. Mike Collins won a hard-fought Republican runoff election in Georgia Tuesday for the party’s Senate nomination in November, his opponent wasted no time going on the offensive.
‘They have already suffered enough’: Central African clergy respond to US deportation
Religious leaders in the Central African Republic say they were stunned by the arrival Friday (June 12) of migrants deported from the United States to their country without cultural or familial ties, questioning why people who fled religious and political…
I Voted For Trump In 2016. When He Won, I Was Shocked By How Brutally My Life Changed Overnight.
I am a Chinese woman, a daughter of immigrants, who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. It is almost a secret, though I sometimes offer up the confession like it is penance.
Religion, American Style
Athud at the front door introduced me to Brook Wilensky-Lanford’s A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America (Grove, 2026). It is a 672-page brick of a book whose tightly bound pages resist lying flat for reading. It may be…
Juneteenth reminds us of Black Americans’ long struggle for education following end of slavery
The abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to slavery. Douglass himself was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818.
In anti-LGBTQ+ Idaho, an Episcopal camp offers queer Christians a haven
The Episcopal Diocese of Spokane, Washington, has maintained Camp Cross—a 130-acre property on the west side of Lake Cœur D’Alene, Idaho—for more than a century. Each week throughout summer, the church hosts themed retreats, from Arts and Music Camp to…
Faith and the Voting Booth: How Trump’s Approval is Trailing the 2024 Vote Share
“I don’t particularly like Donald Trump; I just voted for him because I really didn’t like the alternative.” That’s a comment that I feel like I hear on a nearly weekly basis in various environments. It’s usually during the Q&A portion…
Amid anti-migrant attacks, South African clergy urge dialogue and open doors
As a wave of xenophobic violence continues rippling across South Africa, the country’s national church council is urging its members to open their doors for the resulting humanitarian emergencies and for dialogue.
Trump-backed Oklahoma congressional candidate supports Israel — and says the Antichrist will be Jewish
A pro-Israel pastor who inveighs against “sharia law” and preaches about the Jews worshipping the Antichrist is the favored candidate in a crowded congressional primary in Oklahoma on Tuesday.
A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears.
To some extent, Mohamed Hussein knew he was preparing to enter the lion’s den.