Religion
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More than 1,300 people died during the pilgrimage to Muslim's holiest site — but it’s not just because of heat.
Churches, mosques, and temples could change the game on affordable housing.
A separation of church and church.
The spiritual possibilities of alien encounters.
As one expert put it, “This is the Newsmax version of Catholic theology.”
These radical social conservatives could define Trump’s second term.
A spiritual atheist’s journey to helping death row inmates.
The most basic answers to the most basic questions about the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The onscreen version of exorcists Ed and Lorraine Warren is a far cry from their real-life counterparts.
To understand the Israel-Hamas war, you have to understand how we got here.
The Exorcist: Believer shows how American religion and Hollywood movies have shifted.
Savior Complex, The Mission, and the culture behind toxic missionary work.
It’s no accident — the intertwining of religion and technology is centuries old.
The Court’s Republican majority has ground the Constitution’s establishment clause down to a nub.
The Chosen’s Christian nepo baby roots — and other ways the hit drama might surprise you.
The way to beat a partisan Supreme Court is to hold a grudge against it for a really long time.
Gorsuch hands a victory to the Christian right by making false claims about an important First Amendment case.
Reports that we’re becoming crappier humans over time are greatly exaggerated.
The Duggars, Bill Gothard, and me.
A new report identifies nearly 500 clergy members in Illinois who sexually abused children.
The justices appeared uncharacteristically cautious in a high-stakes case about religion in the workplace.
Groff v. DeJoy could give religious conservatives unprecedented power to make demands from their employers.
A new report identifies more than 150 clergy members in Maryland who abused at least 600 victims over six decades.
Nearly 30 years later, the siege of David Koresh’s Branch Davidians challenges our definition of “cult.”
The fight over whether religious conservatives enjoy special rights is coming to a workplace near you.
What is art? The Christian right wants that question to be decided by the Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis.
What Kanye West really told us.
The Republican justices who overruled Roe v. Wade are only getting started.
The Supreme Court disposes of the Yeshiva University case with an implicit threat.
Yeshiva University v. YU Pride Alliance is a genuinely difficult case about just how much immunity religious institutions should have from the law.
How do ideas about faith and God influence conversations about artificial intelligence?
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District is a big victory for the religious right, but only because Gorsuch misrepresents the facts of the case.
Carson v. Makin is a serious, but not fatal, blow to the wall separating church and state.
America’s largest Protestant denomination covered up a sexual abuse problem for decades.
The Court hands the Christian right a victory it actually deserved to win.
Demons, angels, and elite liberal conspiracies: Frank Peretti’s books sound like today’s headlines.
The justices may take a big bite out of the First Amendment’s establishment clause, or they might take a simply enormous bite out of it.
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District is the culmination of 60 years of fears about religious coercion by public schools.
Ramirez v. Collier indicates that the Court retains some commitment to the rule of law.
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