news Pilgrims and Holy Wars at the World Cup Soccer’s corrupt governing body may discover that the faithful still believe in the game—but not in its priests By Dan Friedman
The Beautiful Game’s Crisis of Faith Soccer has become more global, more Muslim, and more open. But FIFA’s embrace of Qatar and Saudi Arabia has corrupted the game’s new pluralism. By Dan Friedman
How Christian Should America Be? New Pew data shows that support for a Christian culture is far from universal—and that evangelicals remain the major outlier. By Ryan Burge