A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for ...

We Were Liars is the latest in a series of television shows about obscenely wealthy people’s lavish holiday accommodations ...

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Pronatalism has become a pet project for a certain subset of the Right. Indeed, the ideology dovetails nicely with longstanding Republican priorities like banning abortion and limiting access to birth ...

It was my absolute pleasure to chat with Dr. Yvonne Chireau, author of the iconic Black Magic and official Hoodoo consultant for Ryan Coogler’s latest smash hit, Sinners. In this delightful ...

There are many pleasures for students of the Catholic Church in Conclave—which recently received eight Oscar nominations—from the glimpses behind the doors of the uber-secretive papal conclave itself ...

Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D., is a feminist theologian who is co-founder and co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. A Roman Catholic active ...

For a decade and a half, Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripalhas been advocating for the field of religious studies to not only take reports of alienabductions and visits from the dead as seriously as accounts of ...

With Trump’s second presidency, Christian Zionism may be returning to the White House stronger than ever before. His recent nomination of Mike Huckabee as US ambassador to Israel and Pete Hegseth as ...

The ADL over the past year has been ringing the warning bell about Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), going as far as demanding police disrupt the protest ...

On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use ...