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…
God, Death, and the Right to Choose: A Religious Divide on Assisted Suicide
Several years ago, Canada began a program called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). It’s a government initiative that’s beginning to reshape how Canadians are facing end-of-life situations. An article published in The Atlantic in August of 2025 titled Canada Is Killing Itself reports 5% of…
When Trump’s satire hits too close to home for American Christians, Antichrist claims emerge
Is Donald Trump the Antichrist? That question has been on a lot of people’s mind in recent weeks — mainly due to the president’s nonstop social media feed, which included posting an Easter message that used the f-word and a…
Strait of Hormuz Closure Is Hurting Global Aid
When Iran began severely restricting access to the Strait of Hormuz in early March, Jungle Aviation and Relay Service (JAARS) felt the impact almost immediately. The Christian nonprofit has 48 aircraft and 75 pilots in its alliance and flies missionaries…
Archbishop of Canterbury expresses solidarity with Pope Leo XIV in calling for peace in Iran
The Archbishop of Canterbury on Thursday expressed solidarity with Pope Leo XIV in calling for peace in the Middle East.