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Dagli Orti / Getty; Joanne Imperio / The … The American Faith I Was Raised In
Growing up in the Bible Belt, I was taught that Church and state should never have been separate.
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David Turnley / Corbis / Getty What Putin’s Treatment of Jews Reveals About Russia
His move to kick out the agency that assists émigrés to Israel fits a pattern from Soviet times of using Russian Jews as pawns.
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Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty What We Talk About When We Talk About Israel
In a new book, Walter Russell Mead looks at all the ways Americans’ understanding of Israel has been refracted through their own internal conflicts and aspirations.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Supreme Court Has Ushered In a New Era of Religion at School
For two centuries, America had kept questions of church and state at bay. The country is not ready for the ones to come.
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Jonno Rattman How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church
The movement spent 40 years at war with secular America. Now it’s at war with itself.
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Saudi Press Agency / Reuters Photos: Eid al-Fitr and the End of Ramadan 2022
Images of Muslims around the world observing Eid al-Fitr and Ramadan this year
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Let Coach Kennedy Pray
In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Supreme Court has the chance to ensure that teachers are not the state’s robots.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Religious Leaders Caught in the Vaccine Wars
People seeking to obtain an exemption from the shot have found that some clergy see no theological foundation for an excusal.
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Ronny Hartmann / AFP / Getty Why So Many People Still Don’t Understand Anti-Semitism
Unlike many other bigotries, anti-Semitism is not merely a social prejudice; it is a conspiracy theory about how the world operates.
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Brandon Bell / Getty A Synagogue Shouldn’t Be a Fortress
Security experts maximize defenses. But places of worship need to remain welcoming.
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The Atlantic Removing a Hyphen Won’t Stop Anti-Semitism
Symbolic gestures aren’t what’s needed in the fight against anti-Jewish bigotry.
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Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Sources: Benjamin Cremel … Why Is France So Afraid of God?
How the country came to view religion as a threat to national identity
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Alex Majoli / Magnum Conservative Justices Suddenly Discover Limits to Religious Liberty
These jurists appear to believe that questioning other people’s motives is uncivil and undignified—except when they feel like doing it.
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Illustration by Arsh Raziuddin; images by Universal History … The Casteism I See in America
A raft of evidence shows that caste discrimination has been imported from India to the United States.
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Netflix The Netflix Series That Should Make Religious People Uncomfortable
Midnight Mass is a morally urgent critique of how faith can fuel everyday cruelty and violence.
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Mati Milstein / NurPhoto / Getty Palestine Isn’t Ferguson
Any useful analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires engaging with an unresolved, frustratingly complex struggle between two national movements, each with a justified claim to the land.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Sleeper SCOTUS Case That Threatens the Separation of Church and State
Carson v. Makin could set a new precedent for how taxpayer dollars are used to fund religious education.
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Courtesy Babylon Bee; The Atlantic The Christians Who Mock Wokeness for a Living
The Babylon Bee, an online satire publication, has become a popular destination for Christians disaffected with megachurch culture and right-wingers who crave clever commentary about the hypocritical left.
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Dan Darling; The Atlantic Fired After Getting Vaccinated—And Encouraging Others to Do So
Dan Darling lost his job because he refused to “stay neutral” on COVID-19.
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John Seago; The Atlantic What Texas Abortion Foes Want Next
If John Seago and his allies get their way, abortion would be completely illegal in the United States. Would they be ready for the consequences?
