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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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Stephen Lam / Reuters Who's Afraid of Free Speech?
What critics of campus protest get wrong about the state of public discourse.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Virginia's Wake-Up Call to the GOP Establishment
Republican elites in the commonwealth thought their base would reject Trumpist politics. Instead, the establishment favorite nearly lost to a Trump-style provocateur.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters The Blurry Line Between Violent Talk and Violent Action
How do progressives express their moral fury without embracing a dehumanizing language of their own?
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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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Bryan Woolston / Reuters The True History of the South Is Not Being Erased
Taking down Confederate monuments helps confront the past, not obscure it.
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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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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters Lee's Reputation Can't Be Redeemed
The question isn’t whether Robert E. Lee was a successful military commander—it’s why American communities continue to honor a Confederate leader.
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters The Myth of the Kindly General Lee
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
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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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Reuters Staff The Pontiff Versus the Mogul
President Trump prepares to meet Pope Francis as his recently released budget shows just how different his philosophy is from the one that drives the leader of the world’s Catholics.
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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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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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John Duricka / AP The American Health Care Act's Prosperity Gospel
With the bill 51 votes away from law, the central philosophy of the Trump era is one step closer to becoming policy.
