Sexuality & Gender
Review
With “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Theocracy Arrives on the Small Screen
Margaret Atwood’s classic is fiction. But for countless women, its threats are real.
By Gordon Haber
Review
The Clash Between Religious Freedom and Equality Law
It’s easy, in the current American political climate, to see religious freedom and LGBT rights as two opposing values, permanently in conflict with each other.
By Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Essay
Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court, and Religious Freedom
Were our politics not dysfunctional, Gorsuch would be confirmed—as Scalia was—unanimously.
By Richard W. Garnett
Interview
The Culture War and the Benedict Option: An Interview with Rod Dreher
Author Rod Dreher talks to Michael Schulson about his new book, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation.
By Michael Schulson
Review
Communal Living and its Discontents
Briallen Hopper revisits her personal history with communes as she reviews Ellen Wayland-Smith’s “Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table.”
By Briallen Hopper
Interview
Religious Movements of the Great Migration: An Interview with Judith Weisenfeld
The Great Migration fostered a diverse urban religious culture.
By Vaughn A. Booker
Essay
The Complicated Legacy of Bishop Eddie Long
The evangelical world has lost a controversial megastar. For two decades, few megachurch pastors were as influential as Bishop Eddie Long.
By Jonathan L. Walton
Editor’s Note
Bearing Witness at the Women’s March on Washington
“I’m a WITNESS for JUSTICE!” read the front, and on the back, “¡Soy TESTIGO de la JUSTICIA!”
By Marie Griffith
Essay
Donald Trump and Militant Evangelical Masculinity
Having replaced the Jesus of the gospels with an idol of machismo, it’s no wonder many have come to think of Trump himself as the nation’s savior.
By Kristin Du Mez
The States Project
Ohio: An Atheist Finds (Some) Reasons to Believe in Her Old Church
An Atheist Finds (Some) Reasons to Believe in Her Old Church.
By Sarah Stankorb