SCOTUS decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, one of its blockbuster cases from 2025, largely rested on two parental rights cases…
One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains intense.
Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her…
Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held…
Amid national truth and reconciliation processes, Scandinavian churches are taking stock of their past policies toward the…
Nearly half of Americans say they feel less free to speak their minds.
Pop culture about the ‘trial of the century’ reflected broader cultural rifts.
The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, or the CREC, has a highly patriarchal and conservative interpretation of…
A scholar of extremism writes that the use of the term often obscures deeper societal issues such as rising political violence…
Young writers in Germany are challenging one-dimensional stereotypes about Jewish and Muslim identities.
AI avatars of dead people are teaching courses and testifying in court. Even with the best of intentions, the emerging practice…
Since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the ensuing war, some Jewish students have been vocal about support for…
AI has the potential to help prevent and detect abuse, but only if it avoids bias and is sensitive toward traumatized people’s…
Over the years, the Southern Baptist Convention has spoken out against many efforts to advance LGBTQ rights, writes a scholar…
As video games such as ‘Black Myth: Wukong,’ with strong religious themes, gain popularity, a course uses the interactive…
A scholar of right-wing extremism provides an overview of some of the key white supremacist groups that pose significant…
How has white Christian nationalism changed since the Gilded Age? A religion scholar compares the Social Gospel with the…
Hailed as a returning hero, the Marquis de Lafayette made a grand tour of the US in 1824-25, just before the country’s…
Mahmoud v. Taylor stems from some families’ efforts to excuse their children from lessons that use storybooks with LGBTQ+…
Van Gogh’s painting was inspired by French artist Jean-Francois Millet’s 1860 painting. But he transformed Millet’s…