On Tuesday (April 21), the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned previous rulings to say the state of Texas can force public schools to post a highly edited version of the Ten Commandments in public schools. The 9-8 ruling is particularly atrocious since the…
Most US adults still support abortion access, despite declines for some Christians
Though majorities in both groups support abortion being legal, a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that both white Catholics and white mainline/nonevangelical Protestants have demonstrated a small swing toward an anti-abortion position since 2024.
Houston synagogue and Jewish day school closed temporarily due to threats
A Houston synagogue and Jewish day school closed Wednesday after receiving threats to their shared campus.
Facing Arrest, Cuban Christian Influencers Continue Call for Freedom
Ernesto Ricardo Medina began filming short videos with friends in early 2024 from a small room, or cuartico, of his home in Holguín, Cuba. By 2026, he had become one of the foremost Christian voices speaking out against the Cuban government.
An Iranian yeshiva bought a major Reform temple. It could be a blessing.
You can take the Port Washington branch of the Long Island Rail Road, or you can drive out on the Long Island Expressway to Exit 33. And you can work hard, be successful and want a great community for your…
Vance shows how not to navigate church-state issues
The estuary where politics and religion intermingle has rarely been a place of great clarity. Brackishness is a form of unpleasantness; you can’t drink brackish water. Yet, religion and politics are two of the great engines of history and so…
God In The Algorithm: Coders Are Building AI For The Church
On Aug. 21, 2025, a Nigerian developer named Dara Sobaloju posted what he saw as just another idea on X.
Israel promotes ‘biggest LGBTQ+ festival ever in the Middle East’ near site of Sodom: ‘Mocking God’
The official X account of Israel, which is run by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, promoted an upcoming four-day LGBTQ+ pride festival in June at the Dead Sea, which some detractors on social media noted is the traditional location of Sodom…
How Candace Owens Learned Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories from an Orthodox Rabbi
In the turgid miasma of online antisemitism, one voice stands out: Candace Owens. Owens is not one to traffic merely in familiar antisemitic cliches of Jewish control of Hollywood or finance.
The deconstruction narrative has a rage problem. Taylor Tomlinson has the antidote.
In 2006, the Reverend Barbara Brown Taylor published “Leaving Church,” a memoir of such quiet, luminous precision that it felt less like a departure than a deeper conversion into the world. It was a mid-life reckoning with a vocation, written…
How Islamophobic rhetoric leaves an impact on the mental health of Muslim Americans
The war with Iran has led to a surge in anti-Muslim rhetoric – spilling into political discourse.
St. Augustine is key to the difference between Pete Hegseth and Pope Leo
In the aftermath of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent Pentagon prayer and Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday homily, much of the public commentary has settled into a familiar framework. A conservative official invoked God in the context of war and a supposedly…