Emma Green
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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Regis Duvignau / Reuters The Rebirth of America's Pro-Natalist Movement
Activists on the right and left want policies that will reverse the country’s baby bust. But the broader culture—and Congress—don’t seem to care.
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Ammar Awad / Reuters ‘Jerusalem Is Not the Explosive Device—It’s the Detonator’
President Trump’s announcement on the status of the holy city could spark a crisis across the Middle East.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Museum That Places the Bible at the Heart of America’s Identity
The new facility tells a national story through the lens of the holy book.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Now It's Liberal States Clashing With the Federal Government Over Religious Freedom
California, Pennsylvania, and others have sued over new policies on contraceptive coverage.
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Marvin Gentry Christian Support for Roy Moore ‘Looks Like Hypocrisy to the Outside World’
Recent allegations against the aspiring Alabama senator fit a long and complicated history of religious debates about sex.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Why Notre Dame Reversed Course on Contraception
The Catholic university is caught between accommodating a diverse community and defending what it sees as religious freedom.
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Reuters The Particular Horror of Church Shootings
Twenty-six people were killed in an attack in Sutherland Springs, Texas, adding to the long list of houses of worship hit with gun violence.
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Courtesy of the Archives of the Chicago Province ... There Are More Black Catholics in the U.S. Than Members of the A.M.E. Church
How black Americans defy religious stereotypes—and navigate race relations in historically white, European spaces.
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Hilary Swift The Quiet Religious-Freedom Fight That Is Remaking America
A federal law was supposed to put an end to the use of local zoning laws as tools of discrimination. It hasn't.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters A Federal Court Pushes Back on Trump's Transgender Military Ban
A judge has issued a preliminary injunction, finding it likely that the administration violated transgender service members’ constitutional rights.
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Max Rossi / Reuters / Katie Martin / ... Why Can’t Christians Get Along, 500 Years After the Reformation?
Martin Luther left behind a rich legacy of protest and reform. But the global church still isn’t over the fractures he helped create.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters ‘One Way We Push Back Against Evil Is Through the Leaders We Elect’
Pastor Robert Jeffress talks about his support for Donald Trump—and why Christians have an obligation to be involved in politics.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Mike Pence Promises to Defend Christians in the Middle East
The vice president announced that the administration will shift aid from the United Nations to the U.S. Agency for International Development. He’ll also visit the region in late December.
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Jani Salonkangas / ICEJ White Evangelicals Used to Dominate Christian Zionism, but Not Anymore
Why thousands of Christians from across the globe travel to Jerusalem each year to celebrate a Jewish holiday
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Jon Herskovitz / Reuters How American Politics Became So Exhausting
In a new book, the writer Alan Jacobs looks at why it’s impossible for people who disagree to hold a civilized conversation.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters How 'Evil' Became a Conservative Buzzword
The left and right rely on different moral languages in the wake of tragedies like the Las Vegas shooting.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Department of Justice Takes a Stand Against Transgender Rights in the Workplace
A new memo rescinds an Obama-era policy on gender-identity discrimination, setting the stage for a possible Supreme Court fight.
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Getty Images The Worst Mass Shooting in Modern American History
A gunman opened fire during a country-music show at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, killing at least 58 people and injuring hundreds more.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Most Campaign Outreach Has Zero Effect on Voters
A new paper finds that direct mail, door-to-door canvassing, and television ads almost never change people’s minds. What does this mean for American democracy?
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters When Mormons Aspired to Be a ‘White and Delightsome’ People
A historian looks at the legacy of racism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
