So Utah passed a bill designed to “address” ritual abuse this week. That is a thing that happened in the year of someone’s ...

The image above is an altered detail from a video posted on X by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, along with a ...

Although President Trump’s executive order on elections signed earlier this week is probably unconstitutional, it closely ...

Mahmoud Khalil’s harrowing and unlawful detention on March 8th captured widespread attention after plain-clothes ICE agents ...

I’ve always found the performative use of religious language, as an excoriation or a scold, to be laughably ineffective. To call someone “godless” was a way to make me curious, not a way to convince ...

Allie Wong is a Ph.D. student at Columbia University who was arrested and brutalized by the police during the 2024 protests. Her research examines how specific milieus ...

When you’re raised in an authoritarian Christian community you can never quite comfortably fit into,… ...

Last week, Trump released an executive order pledging to combat antisemitism by ordering a draconian… ...

Archbishop of Sydney Glenn Davies: “It is a consequence of our discipleship to uphold the gift of marriage as God has designed it.” ...

Most people, to the extent that they heard about it at all, probably interpreted the… ...

When bishops really disagree with someone, they are not tepid. Their language glows hot and they follow it up with strong action.

Religion Dispatches offers new ways to think about how religion works in (and on) American culture and politics. We invite an open discussion of religious ideas, communities, and practices, rooted in ...