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  • New Miniseries Revisits Waco Siege 25 Years Later

    …called ‘the helper.’” According to Dr. Perry, the children of Mt. Carmel endured “military drills, interrupted sleep and one-on-one fighting.” He writes, “If the children didn’t want to participate or…

    By Gordon Haber

  • Local Religious Leaders Respond to Ferguson

    …local, should seek to promote communication, cooperation, and peaceful resolution in close collaboration with other community groups (parishes, congregations, synagogues and mosques, neighborhood associations, civic clubs, and the like). Law…

    By The Editors

  • Scholars of Religion and Politics Respond to the Capitol Insurrection

    …political, religious, and cultural events to come. I’ve already heard over the past week repeated phrases uttered in disbelief: “How could we have seen this coming?” or “We’re better than…

    By The Editors

  • Ahmadi Muslims Have a Storied American History—And a Legacy That Is Often Overlooked

    …U.S. tour, which ended November 5, gave him a chance to meet his American followers, particularly African American Ahmadis, new converts, and recently resettled refugees. The 20,000-strong community of U.S….

    By Aysha Khan

  • Breaking the Ten Commandments: A Short History of the Contentious American Monuments

    …stone-cutter,” complained Henri Marceau, the commission’s chair as well as the director of Philadelphia’s Art Museum, deriding the monument as a “slab” rather than a work of art. In other…

    By Jenna Weissman Joselit

  • The Circle Is Not Unbroken

    …Circle committed itself to “becoming affirming” and to “queer inclusion,” adopting two queer-affirming “proverbs” that spelled out Circle’s support for same-sex marriage, its acceptance of “LGBTQ folks” in church leadership,…

    By Lauren F. Winner

  • The Troubling Push to Deregulate Homeschooling

    …Massachusetts, and Vermont—use a combination of testing and portfolio evaluation to measure progress. In Pennsylvania, where I completed grades 1-8, homeschooling families had to file notices of intent to homeschool,…

    By Caitlin G. Townsend

  • How to Live Beyond this Election

    …in that book and poems with titles like “Witness” and—is “Communion” one of them? “Prodigal.” [laughs] Trethewey: All of those titles. There’s “Exegesis.” All of those titles are about ways…

    By The Editors

  • Obama and the Paradoxes of Progressive Christianity: An Interview with James Kloppenberg

    …and nuances, of these issues. So you take the simplest, hot-button, yes-or-no issue and you focus attention on that. Economic justice is not a yes-or-no issue. There are questions about…

    By Tiffany Stanley

  • Creationism’s Future After No Child Left Behind

    …STEM subjects”—meaning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Both of these statements are true. The ESSA requires ongoing testing of students in the sciences, but it allows states (or local districts)…

    By Adam R. Shapiro