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Don Carstens / Getty Reading the Bible Through Neuroscience
What was it like inside the brain of an ancient prophet?
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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.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Mike Huckabee and the Rise of Christian Media Under Trump
The former Arkansas governor has a new television show on Trinity Broadcasting Network, and a powerful first guest.
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Angelo Hornak / Getty The First Brexit Was Theological
The untold story of Queen Elizabeth I’s alliance with the Islamic world—and what Theresa May could learn from it today
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Stephen Yang / Reuters Will Trump Direct FEMA to Fund Churches Hit by Hurricanes?
The president weighs in on a long-standing debate over using public money to support religious organizations.
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Delil Souleiman / Getty The Myth of the ISIS Female Suicide Bomber
She is almost entirely fictitious—so why are some people so keen to believe otherwise?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Should a Judge's Nomination Be Derailed by Her Faith?
During a recent hearing, Democratic senators pushed an appellate-court nominee to explain how her religious beliefs would affect her legal decisions.
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Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters Can Anyone Stop Burma’s Hardline Buddhist Monks?
Their anti-Muslim rhetoric poses a challenge for everyone from Aung San Suu Kyi to Pope Francis.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters The Non-Religious States of America
New survey data indicates that religiously unaffiliated people in the U.S. are diverse—and in many places, they make up a greater share of the population than any faith group.
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Jamal Saidi / Reuters How New Technology Is Changing Eid Celebrations
The robust Islamic app economy includes a program for ordering up sacrificial livestock.
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Why Are Some People Attracted to New Religions?
Devotees of Sankofa, the Urantia Book, and New Message From God explain what's so compelling about their faiths.
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Yannis Behrakis / Reuters Restoring Kabbalah to Mainstream Judaism
A new translation has made the Zohar—Jewish mysticism’s key work—accessible at last. Is that a good thing?
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Reuters Evangelicals Are Bitterly Split Over Advising Trump
Members of the president’s faith board did not step down after Charlottesville. They say they’re fulfilling their duty to advise America’s leader.
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Bethany Beams / Courtesy of Jen Hatmaker What Obligation Do White Christian Women Have to Speak Out About Politics?
Jen Hatmaker says the “days of silence are over” in polite evangelical culture.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Why the Charlottesville Marchers Were Obsessed With Jews
Anti-Semitic logic fueled the violence over the weekend, no matter what the president says.
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Athar Hussain / Reuters Hindu Today, Muslim Tomorrow
What reports of forced conversion in Pakistan say about the country on the 70th anniversary of its creation
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Jim Bourg / Reuters How Will the Church Reckon With Charlottesville?
Religious communities are grappling with the racism that enabled violent attacks against protesters—including the racism within their ranks.
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Michael Stravato/AP Progressive Values Can't Be Just Secular Values
New polls suggest liberals have an increasingly negative view of religion, despite the fact that most Democrats—and Americans—are religious.
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Amir Cohen / Reuters Convert Nation
More than one-third of Americans identify with a religion different than the one they grew up with.
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Jorge Silva / Reuters How Two Brothers Took Over a Filipino City for ISIS
The country has a history of separatist movements. But it had never seen an extremist takeover like this.
