Religion
A section for news and explainers on religion news — from the latest goings-on at the Vatican to explainers on Ramadan.
What the director of Hail Satan? learned from making a documentary on the Satanic Temple.
Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix star in a reenvisioned version of the traditional Jesus narrative.
Rockland County and New York City have declared emergencies because of the outbreaks.
The hit superhero movie and comic reaches back to ancient Christian theology to create its real villains.
The Catholic Church has no official stance on gender identity.
The Christian startup Alabaster expects to sell nearly $1 million worth of religious books this year.
In an era of declining faith, Mormon membership is holding steady.
“The rights of victims were effectively trampled underfoot.”
Ugg boots might contain both wool and linen, violating the Jewish law of shatnez.
Omar’s tweet was bad. But the Republican reaction was profoundly hypocritical.
Chris Pratt, Justin Bieber, and the “cool” Christian celebrity.
The pontiff, in a first-ever visit to the Arabian peninsula, delivered a mass attended by tens of thousands, including many of UAE’s migrants.
Ezekiel bread, the Daniel fast, and Holy Yoga all take their cues from Scripture.
The alt-right is obsessed with the 19th-century German philosopher. They don’t understand him.
Despite its title, the show cares about the here and now, not the hereafter.
Twenty-nine percent of Americans anticipate a secular funeral.
How a minor holiday about a religious uprising became the symbol of Jewish America.
Rabbis and faith leaders say the story of survival is one many Jews need right now.
“You have two ears and one mouth, so you’ve got to be listening twice as much as you’re talking.”
The theology — and the politics — behind white evangelicals’ ambivalence towards migrants.
The social media network is accused of hiring a right-wing PR firm to smear its critics.
Trump’s Diwali tweet referenced Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains — but not Hindus.
Moonbox sells self-care products to use at different stages of the lunar cycle.
The Vatican asked the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to delay votes on proposals to fight child abuse.
Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are two powerful political forces to be reckoned with.
White evangelicals are still Trump’s base. But they’re in decline.
The ousted attorney general was an architect of Christian nationalist propaganda in America.
All the policy wins that explain evangelical Christians’ loyalty to Trump — and their role in the 2018 midterm elections.
It’s un-Christian to demonize the pilgrim.
Historian and author John Fea on Trump’s “court evangelicals” and the long history of Christian nationalism.
White mainline Protestants are the only religious group to have shifted on Trump.
John Gray on the myths the “New Atheists” tell themselves.
The paper printed the opening words of the Mourners’ Kaddish on its front page.
The alleged Pittsburgh synagogue shooter thought George Soros was controlling the world economy. Here’s the anti-Semitic history of that far-right narrative.
Our wedding felt like an act of defiance.
Mike Pence brought a controversial Messianic rabbi onstage at a rally to pray for the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims.
68 percent of white evangelicals say America has no responsibility to house refugees.
A Media Matters researcher says anti-Semitism is “front and center” in every hate movement in the US.
They told him “you are wounding the body of Christ” by failing to care for marginalized.
She added, “This is no time to be driving God out of the public square.”