How Two Mississippi College Students Fell in Love and Decided to Join a Terrorist Group
In three short months, Jaelyn Young and Muhammad Dakhlalla found themselves at the center of America’s debate over radicalization.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Why the Charlottesville Marchers Were Obsessed With Jews
Anti-Semitic logic fueled the violence over the weekend, no matter what the president says.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters How Will the Church Reckon With Charlottesville?
Religious communities are grappling with the racism that enabled violent attacks against protesters—including the racism within their ranks.
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Amir Cohen / Reuters Convert Nation
More than one-third of Americans identify with a religion different than the one they grew up with.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters The JCC Bomb-Threat Suspect Had a Client
Newly unsealed FBI documents suggest the Israeli arrested for sending the threats was selling his services for a fee.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Hillary Wants to Preach
Religion is playing a big role in Clinton’s post-election tour. What does she have to gain from sharing her faith now?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Battle Over LGBT Discrimination Is Just Beginning
The Trump administration steps into an on-going legal battle over civil rights—and steps on another agency’s turf.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Transgender Ban Could Force Out Thousands of Service Members
The president’s announcement reverses the Obama-era plan to phase in the open participation of these Americans.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters How Much Discrimination Do Muslims Face in America?
Many are suspicious of those who practice Islam. Many more are trying to reach out.
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Kelley DeBettencourt / Getty / Zak Bickel / ... ‘We’re Headed Toward One of the Greatest Divisions in the History of the Jewish People’
A small, vocal group of Conservative rabbis is pushing the movement to accept marriages between Jews and non-Jews. The fight is really about the future of the religion.
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Department of Justice Hobby Lobby Purchased Thousands of Ancient Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq
The craft-supply giant, which will open its Museum of the Bible in D.C. this fall, will pay a $3 million settlement.
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mikeledray / 21kompot / shutterstock / Katie Martin ... A Conservative Christian Battle Over Gender
Some communities agree that women shouldn’t be pastors. But their members fiercely debate every other kind of women’s empowerment.
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Eddie Keogh / Reuters Donald Trump Offers to Help Charlie Gard
The president of the United States stepped in to defend a British infant whose life support will be removed after European courts sided with doctors against his parents.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Sally Yates on Bob Mueller: ‘Folks Ought to Have Tremendous Confidence in Him’
The former acting attorney general says she believes the Department of Justice can withstand anything that happens during the Trump administration.
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Vincent West / Reuters Making Babies, No Sex Necessary
One professor claims that future humans will be made from skin cells and prescreened for things like hair color and sex.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Planned Parenthood Still Believes It Can Win the Culture Wars
Cecile Richards says the organization will not spin off its abortion services, even though Congress is threatening to cut off a portion of the group’s funding.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Supreme Court Strikes Down a Major Church-State Barrier
Trinity Lutheran v. Comer finds that governments can’t discriminate against churches that would otherwise qualify for funding just because they’re religious institutions.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters ‘Muslims Feel Under Siege’
A 17-year-old woman murdered after leaving a mosque in Virginia. For American Muslims, Ramadan has been a charged time.
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Matt York / AP A Resolution Condemning White Supremacy Causes Chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention
At its annual meeting, the evangelical denomination initially declined to consider a statement of its opposition to the alt-right.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Clergy Are More Partisan Than Their Parishioners
A new paper suggests that in most denominations, the people in the pulpits are more Democratic and Republican than those in the pews.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Bernie Sanders's Religious Test for Christians in Public Office
During a contentious confirmation hearing, the Vermont senator questioned the faith of the nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
