A community of Catholic sisters who provide skilled nursing care for poor, terminally ill cancer patients is suing New York state health leaders in federal court, seeking a religious exemption from the state’s law protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ long-term…
Doug Wilson outlines Christian nationalist vision at Idaho town hall, including limits on women’s voting
Wilson said Christ Church is building a “working prototype” of a Christian nationalist society in Moscow, Idaho, including limits on LGBTQ+ rights and non-Christian religious expression.
80 years later, scholarship is breaking silence on women’s suffering and strength at Treblinka – including their role in its uprising
Adek Stein – a Holocaust survivor from Bialystok, Poland – looked anxiously about the room, struggling with the question he’d just been asked. As his eyes searched his small audience, it was clear he was nervous. That itself wasn’t new….
Judge says church can run emergency homeless shelter on property
A judge has ruled that a church in Massachusetts can operate an emergency homeless shelter on its property despite objections from some neighbors.
The Settler Colonial Roots of American Religion
Tisa Wenger teaches American religious history at Yale Divinity School. She is the author of three books, including We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) and Religious Freedom: The Contested…
Pentagon-Vatican meeting latest flash point in Trump’s clash with religious leaders
On Wednesday (April 8), Vice President JD Vance stood in front of Air Force Two in Budapest and was confronted with the latest chapter in an emerging, global drama: rising tensions between the U.S. military and religious leaders.
Politically Neutral, Religiously Intense: What the Data Reveals About Jehovah’s Witnesses
This is why I love the Substack community – a couple of weeks ago, one of my subscribers (Ben Hein) asked me if I had any good data on Jehovah’s Witnesses. And you know what? I actually do. For reasons…
Augustine: The Man Who Forever Rewired Christianity
Augustine of Hippo is one of history’s great minds, which makes it all the more remarkable that he spent so many years being devious, promiscuous and extremely busy explaining why he wasn’t quite ready to change. He eventually ran out…
Baptist Pastor Urges Department of Labor to Seek a ‘Living Jesus’ Not a ‘Dead Jesus’ During Monthly Worship Service
Three days after Christians around the world gathered in churches for Easter Sunday, a Southern Baptist pastor turned a government auditorium in Washington, D.C., into an Easter worship space for employees of the U.S. Department of Labor during their workday….
New Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit Is the Real Deal
Most of the people who come to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, to see the Dead Sea Scrolls can’t read the fragments that are on exhibit through September. The scrolls are written in Hebrew, or perhaps ancient…
Black church leaders revive civil rights playbook to mobilize voters for midterms
Ahead of the midterm elections this fall, Pastor Mike McBride, a longtime Black voter mobilization strategist, is spearheading an initiative for church and community leaders to sit down together for Sunday dinners to learn from each other.
National support group for interfaith Jewish families guts staff amid funding crisis
A national nonprofit that supports interfaith Jewish families has slashed its workforce after facing an unanticipated budget shortfall.