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As an artist and as a person of faith, Clara Maria Goldstein is difficult to pigeonhole.

As the Israel-Hamas war continues, multiple Christian church buildings and facilities have been damaged.

Since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, right-wing media has capitalized on the attacks, stoking hostility with xenophobic and anti-Muslim rhetoric — including referring to Palestinians as “barbarian pigs,” drumming up hatred against Arabs and Muslims in the…

As Israel prepares for a likely ground invasion, a debate is unfolding on the Right regarding the nature and scope of U.S. support for Israel — a debate exposing deep fault lines in the MAGA coalition, and bringing ascendant varieties…

As an artist, Clara Maria Goldstein explores her dual religious roots by portraying the Jesus of her Christian childhood as the Jew he undoubtedly was. She lives and paints in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Each September marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg Laws, whose passage in 1935 stripped Jews of their German citizenship and banned “race-mixing” between Jews and other Germans. Eighty-eight years later, the United States is facing rising antisemitism and white supremacist ideology – including two neo-Nazi…

Thousands of miles from the crisis in Gaza, Muslims and Palestinians in the U.S. are reporting a wave of Islamophobic incidents that, for many, feels terrifyingly familiar.

All of this—real lives taken, real worlds shattered, real threats of ongoing mass murder and death—is part of an incredibly complex geopolitical reality; of settler colonialism, land occupation, political pressures, and a long history of violence. What it is not is a holy…

Seth Kaplan, a researcher at Johns Hopkins who studies fragile states around the world, argues that rebuilding social capital— including religious congregations — can help address some of the more pressing social problems.