Sexuality & Gender
Essay
Religious Nationalism Holds Sway as Virginia Revokes the Rights of Trans Students
Religious identities are being elevated above the gender identities of trans and nonbinary students.
By Jessica Johnson
Report
How Queuing to Pay Respect to the Queen Became a Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage, like the British monarchy, is heavily steeped in imperial and colonial ideologies.
By Augusta Thomson
Essay
Christians Love a Comeback Story. Too Often It’s Cheap Grace.
Despite increased pressure for disgraced public figures to leave the spotlight, it’s surprisingly easy to return to it—especially for Christian leaders.
By Katelyn Beaty
Essay
Religious Appropriation Depends on Whiteness Too
The author tackles some of the themes from her new book, “Stealing My Religion.”
By Liz Bucar
Essay
Conversion Isn’t a Ticket Out of White Supremacy
How white converts to Islam can reinforce anti-Muslim bias
By Anna Piela
Report
Empowered by Magic: The Christians and “Nones” Exploring Witchcraft
Maybe the complications, the syncretism that is so threatening to all kinds of orthodoxies—evangelicalism and otherwise—is the point for modern witches.
By Cameron Dezen Hammon
Essay
Dobbs and Fetal Personhood
The uncertain status of unborn life in Dobbs offers an opportunity to Americans who will now be forced to discuss the morality and law of abortion on the state level.
By M. Cathleen Kaveny
Essay
The Women Left Behind by the Pro-Life Movement
Could it be that in their quest to validate the personhood of an unborn child, the pro-life movement has diminished the personhood of a woman?
By Beth Allison Barr
Essay
Banning Nancy Pelosi from Communion May Have Backfired
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone banned Nancy Pelosi from receiving communion in his San Francisco diocese. But his real showdown is with Rome and the other bishops.
By David Gibson
Interview
Why Trump’s MAGA Resonates With White Christian Nationalism
Yale University sociologist Philip S. Gorski says that people “need to be prepared for what’s coming.”
By Eric C. Miller