Emma Green
The Jews of Pittsburgh Bury Their Dead
Jewish tradition teaches that bodies cannot be left alone. The community has come together to guard the victims of Saturday’s shooting.
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Christopher Aluka Berry / Reuters The New Abortion Bills Are a Dare
State legislators in Alabama and Georgia know that abortion bans will likely be overturned in lower courts. They are aiming higher.
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Alessandra Tarantino / AP Pope Francis Stops Hiding From the Church’s Sexual-Abuse Epidemic
The leader of the Catholic Church has issued rules creating worldwide accountability for reporting allegations of abuse. But he still faces deep cynicism from the body faithful.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP Health and Human Services and the Religious-Liberty War
Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services is pitting religious freedom against abortion and LGBTQ rights.
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Courtesy of HarperCollins / The Atlantic Rachel Held Evans, Hero to Christian Misfits
The firebrand writer died unexpectedly over the weekend at the age of 37.
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Eranga Jayawardena / AP How Sri Lanka’s Christians Became a Target
The island nation’s religious minority was rarely threatened. The Easter bombings changed that.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Young Activists Are Done With Loyalty Tests. Donald Trump Is Not.
Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is part of a new generation that rejects demands for performances of patriotism, including those related to 9/11.
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Ammar Awad / Reuters What Another Round of Netanyahu Will Mean for American Jews
The lead-up to Israel’s election has revealed deep fractures between the Israeli prime minister and American Jews.
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George Frey / Getty The Mormon Church Tries to Create a Little More Space for LGBTQ Families
But for many current and former members, the consequences of a former policy cannot be undone. Their relationships—with the Church, with their families, and with God—have been irreparably damaged.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Democrats Have to Decide Whether Faith Is an Asset for 2020
The religious left has gotten giddy about South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, but campaign infrastructure and policy matter more than rhetoric.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters AIPAC Is Losing Control of the Narrative on Israel
American Jews are very uncomfortable with Trump, but the pro-Israel lobby has embraced him wholeheartedly.
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Frank Franklin II / Associated Press ‘This Could Have Been Their 9/11 Moment’
A generation of young American Muslims is coming of age in a time when a mass shooting at a mosque is horrifying, but not surprising.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Fight Over Ilhan Omar Is a Fight Over the Identity of the Democratic Party
A House vote on bigotry underscored powerful changes in the party’s coalition, including among young Muslims.
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Sid Hastings / AP Conservative Christians Just Retook the United Methodist Church
The mainline denomination voted on Tuesday to toughen its teachings against homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ clergy. It must now decide whether it will stay together.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters These Are the Americans Who Live in a Bubble
A significant minority seldom or never meet people from another race, and they prize sameness, not difference.
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Steve Helber / AP Abortion Is Already Shaping Up to Be a Hot 2020 Issue
Republicans are relishing a fight after bills in New York and Virginia sought to expand late-term abortion access.
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Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe / ... Why Does the Catholic Church Keep Failing on Sexual Abuse?
Cardinal Seán O'Malley has spent decades cleaning up after pedophile priests. Now he's once again found himself in the middle of a crisis.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Ilhan Omar Just Made It Harder to Have a Nuanced Debate About Israel
The Minnesota congresswoman has given credence to caricatures of critics of Israel.
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How Should Americans Tackle Anti-Semitism?
Hatred against Jews is on the rise around the world, including in the United States.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Sees an Opening With Voters on Late-Term Abortion
The president lamented bills that would allow “a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments from birth” in his State of the Union address.
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Jeffrey McWhorter / AP Closing the Gulf Between Black and White Christians
In a new book, a black evangelical challenges his white counterparts to take full responsibility for their complicity in racism, and to commit to changing America.
