theology

When Dr. Larycia Hawkins, a professor of political science at Wheaton College, donned a hijab for Advent in solidarity with Muslims facing hostility and persecution, she explained her gesture in…

Miroslav Volf’s recent WaPo op-ed is an example of the kind of interfaith intervention we’d be better off without.

Trump, long up in the polls, stays up; Cruz is rising. What do they have in common? Savior appeal. Of the idolatrous kind. The two front-runners differ is some ways—among likely caucus voters in Iowa…

It has now been almost two weeks since the press conference in Guizhou, China announcing that a recurring radio broadcast which appeared to be coming from NGC 6809 (a globular cluster located in the…

Yesterday, on CNN’s State of the Union, Trump reiterated his call to bar Muslim immigration to the U.S. and predicted that his fellow presidential candidates would soon come around to his position…

This weekend, downtown Atlanta is entirely overrun by scholars of religion. Thousands have gathered for the 2015 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (along with the Society for Biblical…

Perhaps, like me, you’re the right age and religious sensibility to have worn a WWJD bracelet in the 1990s. I got mine at the United Church of Christ summer camp where I worked for two summers during…

The Blessed Virgin Mary could have appeared on the White House Lawn during Pope Francis’ US visit and no one would have noticed. It was non-stop Francis across the media, social and traditional—not to…

Ross Douthat’s latest column offers proof of Godwin’s law in the headline—and goes downhill from there. And the headline (a sly reference to The Producers’ “Springtime for Hitler”) isn’t even the…

What we search for may be instructive, but what we turn up may be just as important.