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Sean Hemmerle; The Atlantic ‘The Last Acceptable Prejudice’
Father James Martin isn’t quick to call out bias against his faith. But sometimes people go too far.
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Courtesy of Esau McCaulley / The Atlantic The Vortex of White Evangelicalism
“Every single Christian of color who is proximate to evangelical spaces gets called everything but a child of God. And that’s just part of the work.”
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Mark Humphrey / AP The Evangelical Politician Who Doesn’t Recognize His Faith—Or His Party
Bill Haslam, the former governor of Tennessee, is trying to figure out how religious Republicans got so extreme.
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Earl Gibson III / Getty T. D. Jakes on How White Evangelicals Lost Their Way
“The numbers have dropped, but the trauma has not.” One of America’s foremost pastors reflects on religion, race, and the pandemic.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic Hasidic, Devout, and Mad as Hell About COVID-19
Many Americans would recognize the dilemma of Reuven, an anonymous Yiddish-magazine editor who is anguished by his community’s moral failures in the pandemic.
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Gregory A. Shemitz The Archbishop Who Fears for Joe Biden’s Soul
America’s second-ever Catholic president supports abortion rights, leaving the bishops unsure about how to move forward.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic A Catholic Sinner Seeks Communion—And Happens to Be President
Some bishops—and many conservative laypeople—think Joe Biden should be denied access to one of the faith’s most important sacraments.
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Getty / The Atlantic Eric Metaxas Believes America Is Creeping Toward Nazi Germany
The pro-Trump radio host explains how he thinks about the Capitol siege and President Joe Biden’s America.
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Erin Schaff / The New York Times / … The Knives Come Out for Josh Hawley
The elite conservative world saw the Missouri senator as America’s next great statesman. Instead, he’s revealed uncomfortable truths about the movement.
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Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc / Getty Betraying Your Church—And Your Party
How Representative Adam Kinzinger, an evangelical Republican, decided to vote for impeachment—and start calling out his church
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Win McNamee / Getty A Christian Insurrection
Many of those who mobbed the Capitol on Wednesday claimed to be enacting God’s will.
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Getty / The Atlantic Denver Riggleman Has Seen the Future of the Republican Party
Republicans used to think they’d succeed through moderation and inclusion. That’s over.
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Nick Oxford / Bloomberg / Getty The Christmas Crisis
America needs Christmas cheer more than ever. Maybe next year.
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Raymond McCrea Jones / Redux The Evangelical Reckoning Begins
Andy Stanley, the pastor of one of the largest megachurches in the country, ponders the future of an influential corner of American Christianity.
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Jason Fulford The Catholic Temptation
Former Vice President Joe Biden is using his Scranton bona fides to win over a key voting bloc.
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Samuel Corum / The New York Times / … The True Victors of Trump’s Supreme Court Nomination
Amy Coney Barrett’s ascension is a triumph for the conservative legal movement.
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Al Drago / The New York Times / … Is This Really the End of Abortion?
Democrats might crush Republicans in November. With a 6–3 conservative Supreme Court majority, abortion rights could still be decimated.
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Christophe Vander Eecken / laif / Redux The Pandemic Has Parents Fleeing From Schools—Maybe Forever
COVID-19 is a catalyst for families who were already skeptical of the traditional school system—and are now thinking about leaving it for good.
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Getty / The Atlantic Georgia Sends a Preacher to Washington
Anger over Donald Trump’s leadership created an opening for progressives to flip formerly solid-red states such as Georgia—and reclaim the identity of so-called values voters.
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John Locher / AP Kamala Harris’s Nomination Reopens the Wounds of 2016
Why having a woman vice-presidential candidate is historic—and painful for young feminists
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