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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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Marvin Gentry / Reuters Roy Moore Tests the Limits of Bannon's 'Season of War'
The mounting charges against the Republican Senate candidate from Alabama are causing uncertainty for the Breitbart chief and his allies.
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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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AP America's Crisis of Courage
Character remains the issue that confronts us in almost every story about national politics today.
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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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Charles Dharapak / AP Capitol Hill's Sexual-Harassment Problem
Congress has all the necessary elements for a perfect storm of predation.
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Mike Segar/ Reuters Why Liberty University Kicked an Anti-Trump Christian Author Off Campus
Jonathan Martin was removed by armed campus police officers and told never to return.
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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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David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters When Can Private Entities Censor Speech?
Trump’s pressure on the NFL to censor its players is a First Amendment issue.
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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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Eric Gay / AP Why Do the Boy Scouts Want to Include Girls?
The organization’s decision overturns a historic and defining separation, raising questions about their timing and how they differ from the Girl Scouts of the USA.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Rules of the Gun Debate
The rules for discussing firearms in the United States obscure the obvious solutions.
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Jonathan Ernst/ Reuters The ACLU Should Keep Representing Deplorables
An uncompromising, universalist commitment to protecting civil rights is the best way to safeguard the rights of the most vulnerable to abuse and injustice.
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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.
