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Matt York / AP A Resolution Condemning White Supremacy Causes Chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention
At its annual meeting, the evangelical denomination initially declined to consider a statement of its opposition to the alt-right.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Clergy Are More Partisan Than Their Parishioners
A new paper suggests that in most denominations, the people in the pulpits are more Democratic and Republican than those in the pews.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Bernie Sanders's Religious Test for Christians in Public Office
During a contentious confirmation hearing, the Vermont senator questioned the faith of the nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
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Government Press Office / Reuters The Astonishing Israeli Concession of 1967
In a triumphant moment, Israel’s flag was hoisted over the newly conquered Temple Mount—then quickly taken down.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic The Man Behind Trump's Religious-Freedom Agenda for Health Care
Roger Severino, the devout, conservative head of civil-rights enforcement at HHS, shows the power of behind-the-scenes figures in a dysfunctional Washington.
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Israeli Defense Ministry / Reuters The Six-Day War Was a Step Backward for Zionism
For the ideology to thrive in 2017, its adherents need to reject the 1967 myth that Israel can have everything it wants.
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Tara Todras-Whitehill / Muhammed Muheisen / Kathy Willens … How the Six-Day War Transformed Religion
Six perspectives on how the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict changed Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Mormonism
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Reuters Trying to Be an Apolitical Muslim in America
Haroon Moghul’s book How to Be a Muslim tries out a new genre: writing about Islam that’s not about terrorism or war.
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Toby Melville / Reuters When Mosques Refuse to Bury Muslim Terrorists
The Manchester Central Mosque has declined to be involved in Salman Abedi’s funeral. The decision is hardly unprecedented.
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Julio Cortez / AP A New Jersey Mosque Wins in a Religious-Discrimination Lawsuit—Over Parking Lots
Zoning ordinances are a common tool of bias against faith groups. On Tuesday, a Bernards Township settled two cases brought against it.
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Nati Harnik / AP / 21kompot /Katie Martin … The Disappearance of Virtue From American Politics
In his new book, Ben Sasse has identified the right project for America: rehabilitating a shared moral language.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters What Trump's Ramadan Message Was Really About
The president urged Muslims to “reject violence” in a statement that contrasted sharply with those issued by Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
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Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters Why Do Coptic Christians Keep Getting Attacked?
Egypt’s preexisting climate of pro-Islamist sectarianism is an important, and sometimes overlooked, reason.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Goes With God—and the Gamble Mostly Pays Off
Foregrounding religion on a political trip abroad was a surprising choice. What’s even more surprising is that it seemed to work.
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Rob Dobi First He Became an American—Then He Joined ISIS
When the FBI discovered a network of Bosnian-Americans giving support to terrorists, they also discovered Abdullah Ramo Pazara, a U.S. citizen and a battalion commander in Syria.
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Hulu Don't Overinterpret The Handmaid's Tale
What the dystopian series does not imply about the role of religion in politics
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Reuters Staff The Pontiff Versus the Mogul
President Trump prepares to meet Pope Francis as his recently released budget shows just how different his philosophy is from the one that drives the leader of the world’s Catholics.
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters Catholic Populists Have to Respect the Pope, but They Love Trump
How will they square their religious obligations with their political desires as the U.S. president visits the Vatican?
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Jonathan Ernst A Simple Act That Endeared Trump to Israelis
The meaning of the president's Western Wall visit
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Ronen Zvulun / Reuters Israeli Settlers Weren't Always So Religious—They Were Once Secular Hippies
The American Jews who moved to the West Bank thought they were living out the civil-rights dream, a new book argues.
