Interview
First They Came for the Buddhists: Faith, Citizenship, and the Internment Camps
By Eric C. MillerReport
A Push to Deny Muslims Religious Freedom Gains Steam
By Aysha KhanEditor’s Note
Time for Deeper Conversations Around "Heartbeat" Bills
By Marie GriffithEssay
Dangerous Logic at the Border: Religion and the Travel Ban
By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Report
Will Young Evangelicals Come Back to Church?
Many young, white evangelical Christians aren’t showing up at church. Leaders want to know where they’ve gone, why they left, and how to win them back.
By Myriam Renaud
Interview
Oil Patch Religion: How a Passion for Crude Shaped American Faith
Historian Darren Dochuk discusses his new book, “Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America.”
By Eric C. Miller
Essay
Moscow's Patriarch Eyes Paris, and an Orthodox Battle Brews
A Russian church-in-exile is the focus of a culture war inside Orthodox Christianity.
By Katherine Kelaidis
Excerpt
What Past Attacks on Mormons and Catholics Teach Us About the Threat to Muslims
The author adapts an essay from his new book, “Sacred Liberty: America’s Long, Bloody and Ongoing Fight for Religious Freedom.”
By Steven Waldman
Essay
Is This the Religious Left's Kairos Moment?
It’s time for politicians to take note of the complexity and diversity of the religious left.
By Guthrie Graves-FitzsimmonsLinks on R&P from around the web
‘He gets it’: Evangelicals aren’t turned off by Trump’s first term
from The Washington PostThe New Hate Pastors
from SlateIn a Suffering City, an El Paso Priest Needed a Message of Hope
from The New York TimesThe Devil’s Bargain
from The BelieverELCA declares self a ‘sanctuary church body,’ marches to ICE building in Milwaukee
from Religion News ServiceStudy Asks If War Makes A Person More…Or Less…Religious
from NPRA First at a Century-Old Seminary: A Black Woman Takes Charge
from The New York Times‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Aren’t Enough, America’s First Gun Violence Minister Says.
from The New York Times
Writers tell us stories about where they discovered religion and politics in their states.
Missouri
An Ozarks Native Crosses the Show Me State.
By Rachel McBride LindseyOhio
An Atheist Finds (Some) Reasons to Believe in Her Old Church.
By Sarah StankorbLouisiana
A French Teacher Lives Among the Cajuns.
By Max Perry Mueller