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An ex-Marine smashed a pickup into a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church in Michigan, opened fire and set the building ablaze... Read More

President Russell M. Nelson, the pioneering heart surgeon whose second act as an apostle culminated in his 90s with leadership so vigorous... Read More

The memorial service for Charlie Kirk focused Americans’ attention on the intersection of religion and politics, particularly among... Read More

astors, pundits, and politicians gathered in Phoenix last Sunday to remember Charlie Kirk. Seventy thousand people filled every seat of State... Read More

Fareed digs into the statistics on religious affiliation in America, and talks to New York Times religion reporter Ruth Graham about some... Read More

Everyone I know who has deleted their social media has seen their life dramatically improve within three to six months (or, as a friend of... Read More

The IRS reversed seven decades of precedent this summer by repealing the Johnson Amendment, which prohibited religious nonprofits... Read More

Anew biography of a great man, especially one whose life is already rich with lore, is a delicate task. There is the temptation to attempt... Read More

In 2020 Rod Dreher published Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, in which he commends those saints and martyrs who... Read More

The Church’s calendar would have us honor the three archangels named in Sacred Scripture: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. Those familiar... Read More

It has long been fashionable in the Western world to treat faith with a kind of embarrassed condescension, as a relic of a more primitive... Read More

One message that emerged loudly and clearly from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s UN speech last Friday was that... Read More

In Judaism, forgiveness often demands repentance, reconciliation, and repair, but sometimes, even in the face of evil, we forgive anyway -... Read More

I am always amazed when I ask my fellow Jews about the Yom Kippur scapegoat, and they have no idea what I am talking about. Most recently, it... Read More

Although the legal conflict over the conscience objection of religious merchants to facilitating homosexual and transgender behavior might... Read More

YHWH is a God compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in kindness and faithfulness, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and... Read More

Pope Leo XIV announced he will proclaim St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church Nov. 1 during the Jubilee of the World of... Read More

I cannot remember my first confession. That does not matter. Nor can I remember what I confessed at my last confession two weeks ago. That... Read More

We don’t sit in order to become a buddha—we sit because we already are one. Brian Joshin Byrnes on the Zen practice of shikantaza. Read More

Religious charities, including mosques and baptist churches, are accused of promoting misogynistic attitudes, for instance that women should... Read More

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