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Across the nation, stay-at-home orders have quieted downtowns, schools, theaters, and stadiums. But one kind of gathering space—the house of worship—has proven especially contested ground. Directives…

While most pandemic-aware Christian leaders have already canceled any public gathering for the Feast of the Resurrection (a.k.a. Easter) on April 12 (April 19 for Orthodox Christians) the President We…

During the controversy surrounding the selection of a design for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, there was one unofficial proposal so quietly audacious that even the man who put it forward, art…

As we say goodbye to a truly dystopian year (and then some), here is a reading list for those who want to look forward to a better year in 2020. This list has been arranged in no particular order and…

I have gradually been catching some holiday spirit. I am feeling a fair amount of good cheer without having to drink heavily. I’m also aware that my elevated holiday mood is directly related to the…

A reluctant Indian militant, a Jew with Christmas envy, and a feminist in search of an alternative Thanksgiving are among the scholars and writers who have weighed in over the years on our secular religious national holiday of Thanksgiving.

Feminist liberationists have long claimed that discrimination against women is the model for favoring the power of elites over the rest with negative consequences worldwide. The Amazonian Synod only reinforced the claim. The mistakes were breathtakingly obvious and relatively easy to fix.

The recent publication of Bari Weiss’ new book on anti-Semitism and “bedbug-gate” have emphasized the troubling place the Jewish community has found itself in, embodied by Jewish historian Arthur Hertzberg’s proclamation that “The only thing more dangerous for Jews than anti-Semitism is no anti-Semitism.”

Alito’s majority opinion is bereft of both principle and reason. He could have been more concise and lost little nuance by simply writing: ‘The 40ft tall Christian cross is really old and people will get upset if we remove it, so it stays.’

O’Reilly and Dugard’s interpretation of the gospels in Killing Jesus was motivated by the same politics of resentment that Trump inherited from the Tea Party—a politics of fiscal, ethnic/racial, and religious conservatism.