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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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.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic The Man Behind Trump's Religious-Freedom Agenda for Health Care
Roger Severino, the devout, conservative head of civil-rights enforcement at HHS, shows the power of behind-the-scenes figures in a dysfunctional Washington.
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Reuters Trying to Be an Apolitical Muslim in America
Haroon Moghul’s book How to Be a Muslim tries out a new genre: writing about Islam that’s not about terrorism or war.
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Julio Cortez / AP A New Jersey Mosque Wins in a Religious-Discrimination Lawsuit—Over Parking Lots
Zoning ordinances are a common tool of bias against faith groups. On Tuesday, a Bernards Township settled two cases brought against it.
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Nati Harnik / AP / 21kompot /Katie Martin ... The Disappearance of Virtue From American Politics
In his new book, Ben Sasse has identified the right project for America: rehabilitating a shared moral language.
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Reuters Pope Francis, Trump Whisperer?
What started as a cold meeting between the pontiff and the U.S. president turned friendly after a brief closed-door discussion.
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Ronen Zvulun / Reuters Israeli Settlers Weren't Always So Religious—They Were Once Secular Hippies
The American Jews who moved to the West Bank thought they were living out the civil-rights dream, a new book argues.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Speech on Islam, Annotated
In an address full of religious references, the American president avoided the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism."
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Erik Schelzig / Jim Cole / AP / ... Franklin Graham Is the Evangelical Id
The famous preacher’s son embodies all the contradictions of Trump’s America.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Begins His Religion World Tour
The American president’s first international trip has been explicitly framed in terms of religious identity.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Trump: ‘In America We Do Not Worship Government, We Worship God’
After a week of chaos in Washington, the president finally found a friendly crowd at Liberty University.
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Cliff Owen / AP 'Protecting Religious Freedom Is a Foreign-Policy Priority of the Trump Administration'
How—and when—will the White House carry out its verbal commitment to protect persecuted minorities overseas?
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Evan Vucci / AP It Was Cultural Anxiety That Drove White, Working-Class Voters to Trump
A new study finds that fear of societal change, not economic pressure, motivated votes for the president among non-salaried workers without college degrees.
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters The Specter of Catholic Identity in Secular France
Marine Le Pen has invoked the heritage of the Church to explain the core of her nation’s identity. What role does religion really play in this high-stakes election?
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Evan Vucci / AP Why Trump's Executive Order on Religious Liberty Left Many Conservatives Dissatisfied
The president has won support from some high-profile evangelicals, but the move fell well short of expectations for many activists.
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John Gress / Reuters Why Educated Christians Are Sticking With Church
New data suggests religious Americans with college experience tend to participate in services more often than their peers.
