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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Unofficial Racism Consultants to the White Evangelical World
Behind every white pastor’s statement about racial reconciliation is a Black colleague’s late-night tracked changes.
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Patrick Semansky / AP What the Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision Means
Trump promised to appoint justices who would “automatically” overturn Roe v. Wade. The chief justice just made sure that won’t happen before the 2020 election.
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Temptation of Kayleigh McEnany
How an ardent defender of faith—and Donald Trump—came to think of the press as her enemy
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The Atlantic The Wedding That Started a Republican Civil War
In a church parking lot Saturday, Virginia Republicans decided the future of their party.
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ALEX EDELMAN / AFP via Getty The Pastors Already Planning to Rebel Against Future Shutdowns
A growing number of pastors believe the government overstepped in keeping churches closed this spring.
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Courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the ... A Biblical Mystery at Oxford
A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.
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Damon Winter / The New York Times / ... Orthodox Jewish Women Are Facing an Impossible Choice Right Now
Women who observe the Jewish laws of sexual purity have to immerse in a ritual pool after their period. Doing so during an outbreak is complicated—and potentially risky.
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Stephanie Keith / Getty ‘We’re Not Safe as Jews in New York’
The Monsey stabbing is the latest in an escalating drumbeat of anti-Semitic violence in the hub of American Jewish life.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters It’s a Weird Time to Be Young and Conservative
The small but robust conservative ecosystem at Princeton finds its way through a bloodthirsty era of politics.
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Oliver Contreras / Getty How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart
The editor in chief of Christianity Today explains his scathing editorial about the president’s behavior—and the damage he argues his fellow Christians are doing to the Gospel.
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Bryan Schutmaat The Christian Withdrawal Experiment
Feeling out of step with the mores of contemporary life, members of a conservative-Catholic group have built a thriving community in rural Kansas. Could their flight from mainstream society be a harbinger for the nation?
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Mark Makela / Getty The Crisis of American Christianity, Viewed From Great Britain
The theologian N. T. Wright is unfazed by the faith’s politicization in the U.S.
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Damon Winter / The New York Times / ... They Support Trump. They Want Him Impeached.
In 2016, 81 percent of voters in Sioux County chose Donald Trump, though some would feel relief if he were impeached.
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IMAX / James Turrell Crater Kanye West’s Austere Reform Church
The rapper’s IMAX movie, Jesus Is King, puts a choral Christian concert into an artist’s crater to beautiful—but cold—effect.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic Will Anyone Remember 11 Dead Jews?
Eric Lidji is on a one-man mission to keep the Tree of Life massacre from becoming just another entry on a long list of mass shootings and anti-Semitic attacks.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Nothing Will Persuade White Evangelicals to Support Impeachment
New polling suggests that Trump’s base is totally unified behind the president, no matter what investigations might reveal.
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Shutterstock Your Neighbor’s Christian Education, Courtesy of Your Tax Dollars
The Court will hear one of the most notable “Church and state” cases in years.
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Andrew Chung / Reuters The Supreme Court Will Soon Test Its Commitment to Abortion Rights
In a new case, the justices will reconsider past decisions that have protected women’s ability to terminate their pregnancies.
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Michelle Gustafson The Fight to Make Meaning Out of a Massacre
Pittsburgh’s synagogue shooting was the deadliest attack on Jews on American soil. Over the past year, community members have struggled to do something constructive with their tragedy. But they have been divided on whether politics should guide their reaction.
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters The Trump Administration Sides With Nurses Who Object to Abortion
HHS says the University of Vermont Medical Center required staffers to violate their conscience. The case underscores Trump’s religious-freedom agenda.
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