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A new report released Wednesday by a trio of groups, both Christian and secular, on the role played by white Christian nationalists in the January 6 storming of the Capitol will open some eyes, and…

There was a little “post-racial America” in the air Tuesday after a jury found former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty in the murder of George Floyd. It felt similar to the night Barack…

The ‘trustees of the First Church of American Religion’ express concern over the approach of Times columnist David Brooks: You place religious practice and affiliation in the category of palliative resources for those being crushed by the new ruthless economy, whereas the religion usually referred to as prophetic—a form of religion we still regard as indispensable—sees faith as much more than a kind of backstop for those who suffer.

Sure, religious households give more money away than unaffiliated households. But do they ever question why poverty and hunger and homelessness continue to soar in this supposedly “rich” country?

“Conservative Christians had long rejected aspects of expert knowledge, official science, reason, and their organs of circulation. They had been trained in a fundamentalist hermeneutics of suspicion.”

For the third time in this young century, Reinhold Niebuhr is getting another splash of attention. It happened last in 2008, when presidential candidate Barack Obama said that Niebuhr had deeply…

Personal research conducted among my lefty friends shows that for many liberals, reading David Brooks amounts to a kind of a guilty pleasure. Brooks is witty, urbane, occasionally brilliant, and he…

I’ve been a fan of Psalm 73 ever since I read Martin Buber’s interpretation of it almost twenty-five years ago. So it was a pleasant surprise to find it cited in David Brooks’ latest, and to date most…

Poor David Brooks. He wants to write about what ails the evangelical affection for Ted Cruz and what he sees as a tenuous relationship with Christian virtue, but he seems to misapprehend that…

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…