A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for ...

We Were Liars is the latest in a series of television shows about obscenely wealthy people’s lavish holiday accommodations ...

Lisa Webster, a founding editor of Religion Dispatches, holds a Ph.D. in religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and an M.A. in comparative literature from Columbia University. She ...

After Bishop Michael Bruce Curry delivered his sermon at today’s wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, many observers around the world wondered, as one headline put it, “Who was the Jesuit priest ...

Baby We Were Born for War: To Dominionist Christian Groups, No Election is Too Small — and Colorado is Just the Beginning ...

From about 1970 until about 2000, American politics was largely driven by concern about the nuclear family. As established social hierarchies came under fire from the civil rights movement, the gay ...

Over the past six decades, rock ‘n’ roll music has played a central role in American popular culture. Armed with a fun-loving and rebellious ethos, rock has had a liberating effect on generations of ...

After 60 years at the helm of his Christian Broadcasting Network, and 55 hosting its signature “news” magazine broadcast, The 700 Club, the 91-year-old Southern Baptist minister and Christian media ...

Even if we haven’t listened, every generation of evangelicals and fundamentalists says it: Their apocalyptic theology makes them more active not less.

And yet, since October 7, a micro-community of what I’m calling “Bronze Age Zionists” has emerged with greater visibility on sites like Twitter and Telegram, Discord and TikTok, determined to put a ...

The Religious Right’s most cherished and durable myth is its myth of origins. According to this well-rehearsed narrative, articulated by Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and countless others, evangelical ...

That crashing sound you heard Monday morning was waves of change breaching the levees of the evangelical Christian world when one of its most venerable icons, the Rev. Tony Campolo, came out in favor ...