Culture
Interview
How to Live Beyond this Election
On October 8, On Being host Krista Tippett moderated a conversation between poet Natasha Tretheway and interfaith activist Eboo Patel. Held on the eve of …
By The Editors
Interview
Sinfulness, Hopefulness, and the Possibility of Politics
On October 8, On Being host Krista Tippett moderated a conversation between The New York Times’ David Brooks and The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne. Held …
By The Editors
Essay
Eric Metaxas’s Bonhoeffer Delusions
“We are better than this,” declares Marian Wright Edelman, the president and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund. “Bonhoeffer, the great German Protestant theologian who …
By Charles Marsh
Essay
Why Donald Trump Is Losing Catholic Voters
Even early in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, there were signs that he might struggle to win the hearts of Catholic voters. He was competing for …
By Jacob Lupfer
Review
The Mormon Council of Fifty: What Joseph Smith’s Secret Records Reveal
In 1844, the Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith surrendered himself to state authorities after destroying an anti-Mormon printing press in Nauvoo, Illinois. When he was sent …
By Benjamin E. Park
Report
Aboard Noah’s Ark, in a Kentucky Corn Field
Noah’s Ark has a great kitchen. Above the butcher block countertops, gleaming knives and a pizza peel adorn the wall. Garlic cloves hang from a …
By Tim Townsend
Report
The Moral Tribalism of Contemporary Politics
My friends are a model of religious pluralism. Put them all in a room, and they’d look like the Parliament of World Religions—Buddhist, Muslim, Catholic, …
By Michael Schulson
Report
The Persecution of China’s Muslim Uyghurs
It was broad daylight in a busy part of Beijing when a local doctor—a friend of mine—rear-ended the car in front of hers. Though it …
By Matt Moir
Excerpt
The Decline of White Christian America
For most of the twentieth century, in White Christian America the terms “Christian” and “Protestant” were virtually synonymous. Questions like “And where do you go …
By Robert P. Jones
Essay
Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” and Black Christian Women’s Spirituality
In her book, Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith, Marla Frederick chronicles Black women’s participation in the church and development of spirituality …
By Candice Benbow