Media
Review
New Documentary “Keep Sweet” Follows Mormon Fundamentalists
What happened to the community that imprisoned FLDS leader Warren Jeffs left behind?
By Benjamin E. Park
Report
Is Kosher Pork Still Impossible?
Why Impossible Food’s new vegan “pork” product was denied kosher status.
By Adam R. Shapiro
Essay
Reframing the Story of Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy
The humanist chaplaincy at Harvard makes for a good story—just not the ones we have been primed to hear about atheist notoriety and ascendant secularity.
By Leigh Eric Schmidt
Review
The Christian Nationalism Behind the New “God’s Not Dead” Film
The film’s polemics make plain that the “we” in “We the People” really means White evangelical Christians.
By Jill Hicks-Keeton
Interview
The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics
Rebecca L. Davis talks about her new book, “Public Confessions.”
By Eric C. Miller
Interview
Is Religion Good for Democracy? An Interview with Robert Wuthnow
The author talks about his new book, “Why Religion is Good for American Democracy.”
By Kenneth E. Frantz
Interview
Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe’s Faithful Quest to Heal a Divided World
The evangelical says, “I’m a climate scientist because I’m a Christian.”
By Eric C. Miller
Essay
The 20-Year Media Spectacle of Saving Afghan Women
The focus on the suffering of Afghan women deflects attention from the more difficult questions about what the U.S. actually set out to achieve in the longest war in our history.
By Tazeen M. Ali
Essay
Why Creationism Appears in Debates About Scientific Racism
“Creationism” has become a powerful rhetorical term in the Science Wars.
By Adam R. Shapiro
Report
Amid Covid Surge, Loved Ones Worry for These Unvaccinated Evangelicals
There is still vaccine skepticism among the faithful.
By Jason Koon