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Review
The Supernatural Pseudoscience of Nazi Germany
A review of Eric Kurlander’s “Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich”
By Michael Schulson
Essay
The Role of Sports Ministries in the NFL Protests
A number of black athletes are fueling their activism with Christian faith.
By Paul Putz
Essay
The Russian Orthodox Church: Putin Ally or Independent Force?
The image of the Russian Orthodox Church as the “handmaiden” of the state is a trope with a long history.
By Gregory L. Freeze
Interview
India in the American Imagination: An Interview with Michael J. Altman
The subcontinent stood for more than two centuries as a screen onto which white Western Protestants projected their fantasies.
By Eric C. Miller
Essay
Losing Our Civil Religion
Trump’s unbridled rhetorical rampage has stripped the presidency of its moral ambition and authority.
By John D. Carlson
Essay
Masterpiece Cakeshop: Meet the Christian Legal Group Behind the High-Profile Court Case
Alliance Defending Freedom has become one of the most influential legal interest groups in the United States.
By Daniel Bennett
Essay
How the State Department Has Sidelined Religion’s Role in Diplomacy
Gone are the days when the United States had the capacity to understand lived religion in almost any part of the world.
By Shaun Casey
Report
As Artificial Intelligence Advances, What Are its Religious Implications?
Religious communities and thinkers are debating AI’s moral and ethical issues.
By Ellen Duffer
Essay
Charlottesville, Exodus, and the Politics of Nostalgia
We may never reach the Promised Land, but we will become a better nation by remaining on the journey.
By Rachel Wheeler
Editor’s Note
White Christians Must Condemn White Supremacy
To be silent or to engage in false equivalencies is to be complicit in the growth of this noxious fascism.
By Marie Griffith