When Kyle Meyaard-Schaap was 17, his brother came home from a semester abroad and announced the unthinkable: He was a vegetarian.
How far must employers go to accommodate workers’ time off for worship? The Supreme Court will weigh in
Imagine you own a business with a few dozen employees. One, who is Muslim, asks if she can use a meeting room a few times a day for brief prayers – one of the five pillars of Islam. Another, who observes…
Nikki Haley says she’s Christian, but it’s complicated
In the opening seconds of Nikki Haley’s video launching her 2024 presidential bid this week, she described her upbringing in the South: “I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. Not Black, not white, but different.” The words are accompanied by…
Ukraine war has exposed the folly – and unintended consequences – of ‘armed missionaries’
The evening before Russia invaded Ukraine, it seemed to many observers – me included – nearly unimaginable that Putin would carry through with weeks of a threatened military attack. As I wrote at the time, Putin is not as erratic or rash as he is sometimes painted.
LAPD amps up patrols near Jewish worship spaces after shootings outside synagogues
The Los Angeles Police Department will have increased police presence and patrols around Jewish places of worship as a precautionary measure this weekend after the shootings of two Jewish men outside synagogues over the last two days.
Bipartisan Group Of Senators Renew Effort To Label Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine A Genocide
Only days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a bipartisan group of senators is again trying to get it declared a genocide.
Radical beliefs in ‘spiritual warfare’ played a major role in Jan. 6, an expert argues
Two weeks after President Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election, a group of Christian pastors stood on stage inside a nondenominational church in a suburb of Phoenix, whipping the congregation into a frenzy of prayer mixed with…
Archdiocese of Oklahoma City asks to open nation’s first Catholic charter school
The first step toward a landmark decision on taxpayer-funded religious schools advanced Tuesday, as the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City asked state officials for permission to open an online Catholic charter school.
How The Pope And An American Cardinal Ignited New Debates On Sex And The Eucharist
When popes talk about sex, it tends to make headlines.
At 103, Sister Jean publishes memoir of faith and basketball
At age 103, Sister Jean awakes daily at 5 a.m. She sits up quickly to avoid going to sleep again — “I’ve got too much to do,” she says. After prayers for the day ahead, she reads the Gospel on…
Still left behind: what the endurance of the Left Behind cinematic universe can tell us about conservative moral psychology
The End keeps on not coming, but the delay has produced yet another opportunity for a Left Behind film. Directed by and starring Kevin Sorbo, Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist was released just last month in select theaters to an audience score of 97%…
A diverse Supreme Court grapples with affirmative action, with its justices of color split sharply on the meaning of ‘equal protection’
The United States Supreme Court is deciding a pair of cases that could end affirmative action programs that consider race in college admissions.