Pundits, academics, and church leaders alike decry our current age as a time of partisan rancor and disunity. People, we are ...

Being of voting age in an American presidential election year is messy business. This has always been the case. A two-party ...

Is it valid to be annoyed when, as your plane pulls up to the gate at your destination, a flight attendant tells you and your ...

By now readers are likely familiar with the claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating peoples’ pets. It ...

In a recent front-page article, New York Times religion reporter Ruth Graham explores a historic gendered shift in church attendance. As the data show: survey after survey reveals a marked increase in ...

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Whether or not anyone recognizes it by name, the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is hitting… ...

Here at Religion Dispatches, we have an informal policy that “religion is as religion does.”… ...