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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 BennettEssay
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 CaseyEssay
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 WheelerEssay
How One Purist Tried to Save the Religious Right from the Republicans
Then, as now, the movement largely chose relevance, thinking it was better to be a power player accused of hypocrisy than to be uncompromised, but irrelevant.
By Daniel SillimanEssay
Breaking the Ten Commandments: A Short History of the Contentious American Monuments
Where once the biblical passages were an anchor of the nation’s identity, they have now become the stuff of controversy and even rupture.
By Jenna Weissman JoselitEssay
Why I Went Back to Church
I owe it to my daughter, my father, and Donald Trump.
By Max Perry MuellerEssay
Reinhold Niebuhr, Washington’s Favorite Theologian
He has experienced something of a renaissance since 9/11.
By Gene ZubovichEssay
The Theology of Stephen K. Bannon
His religious ideology combines aspects of Christianity with far-right nationalism, Islamophobia, and pseudo-historical narratives.
By Hugh UrbanEssay
Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court, and Religious Freedom
Were our politics not dysfunctional, Gorsuch would be confirmed—as Scalia was—unanimously.
By Richard W. GarnettEssay
The Conservative Tradition of Welcoming Refugees
Nearly three decades after my family came to the United States, refugees today anxiously hold their breath because what seemed certain to us—that we would be welcomed in our new home—is no longer so obvious.
By Gene Zubovich