A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for ...

Lisa Webster, a founding editor of Religion Dispatches, holds a Ph.D. in religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and an M.A. in comparative literature from Columbia University. She ...

We Were Liars is the latest in a series of television shows about obscenely wealthy people’s lavish holiday accommodations ...

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Above is a photograph I took in March 2024 of the lobby of Christ for the Nations Institute, a Bible college in Dallas that the Minnesota political murders suspect, Vance Boelter, appears online to ...

Pronatalism has become a pet project for a certain subset of the Right. Indeed, the ideology dovetails nicely with longstanding Republican priorities like banning abortion and limiting access to birth ...

It was my absolute pleasure to chat with Dr. Yvonne Chireau, author of the iconic Black Magic and official Hoodoo consultant for Ryan Coogler’s latest smash hit, Sinners. In this delightful ...

For a decade and a half, Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripalhas been advocating for the field of religious studies to not only take reports of alienabductions and visits from the dead as seriously as accounts of ...

Benjamin Franklin’s hope and warning, “A republic, if you can keep it,” resonates with too many of us these days. This has especially been the case watching the president-elect nominate his Cabinet, a ...

With Trump’s second presidency, Christian Zionism may be returning to the White House stronger than ever before. His recent nomination of Mike Huckabee as US ambassador to Israel and Pete Hegseth as ...

The ADL over the past year has been ringing the warning bell about Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), going as far as demanding police disrupt the protest ...