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Jenn Ackerman / NYT / Redux Who’s Afraid of a Portrait of Muhammad?
When Hamline University cut ties with a professor who showed a painting of Muhammad, it sided with the most intolerant element of the American Muslim spectrum.
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Martin Parr / Magnum American Religion Is Not Dead Yet
Participation in traditional houses of worship is in decline, but innovation and growth are happening elsewhere.
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Alessandra Benedetti / Corbis / Getty; Pfeiffer / … Pope Benedict XVI and the Church After the Fall
He saw the magnitude of the damage the Catholic Church had inflicted, and his retreat came nearest to acknowledging it.
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The Atlantic; Joe Burbank / Orlando Sentinel / … The War on Christmas Is Winning
The holiday is becoming a less religious occasion for millions of Americans.
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Photo-illustration by Chantal Jahchan. Source: Vatican Pool / … The Reinvention of the Catholic Church
Scandals have taken a toll, and faith is flagging in Europe and the U.S. But Catholicism isn’t on the wane—it’s changing in influential ways.
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Getty; The Atlantic Chappelle Was Right
It really is getting harder to joke about anti-Semitism—just not for the reasons he thinks.
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Biju Boro / AFP / Getty Images of Diwali: The Festival of Lights
Photos from this year’s festival, as celebrants color their world, give prayers, and wish one another a happy Diwali
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Jean-Baptiste Lacroix / AFP / Getty Why Conspiracy Theorists Always Land on the Jews
“The more conspiratorial discourse your society has, the more likely people will become anti-Semites,” Yair Rosenberg says.
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Getty; The Atlantic How Not to Talk About the Holocaust
A simple guide to discussing Jewish genocide
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Getty; The Atlantic Private Religious Schools Have Public Responsibilities Too
Communities of faith should be able to pass on their traditions, but must still meet basic state educational standards.
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Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty Is Politics Filling the Void of Religion?
“I think if we want people to genuinely own their mistakes, then you have to offer the possibility of redemption,” Helen Lewis says.
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Getty; The Atlantic How Social Justice Became a New Religion
Our society is becoming less religious. Or is it?
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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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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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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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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.
