How Will Young People Choose Their Religion?
Introducing our special project on the changing nature of beliefs and practices among teens, 20-, and 30-somethings
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Jose Cabezas / Reuters White Evangelicals Believe They Face More Discrimination Than Muslims
A new study suggests different groups of Americans see their country in radically divergent ways.
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David Ryder / Reuters Trump’s ‘Honor Killing’ Tracking System Could Exacerbate Domestic Violence
The president has ordered agencies to report “acts of gender-based violence against women … by foreign nationals." Advocates and mental-health practitioners are skeptical.
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Steve Helber / AP The Trump Administration May Have Doomed Gavin Grimm's Case
The Supreme Court has sent the transgender student’s case back to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals following a new federal guidance letter on schools and bathrooms.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Death of Community and the Rise of Trump
What does a decreasing attachment to religious and civic institutions in white, working-class America mean for the country's political future?
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Wilfredo Lee / AP The FBI Arrests a Man for Making Bomb Threats Against Jewish Institutions
The alleged perpetrator is a former reporter who was fired for fabricating stories. He is accused of being responsible for only a small fraction of the threats made in recent weeks.
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Tom Mihalek / Reuters Why Attacks on Jewish Cemeteries Provoke Particular Fear
Each new incident assumes added significance for Muslims and Jews who see them as part of a broader pattern.
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Getty / Chip Somodevilla / Zak Bickel / ... How the FBI Is Hobbled by Religious Illiteracy
The Bureau has long defended “Judeo-Christianity.” Minority groups have not fared as well.
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Steve Helber / AP The Federal Government’s Reversal: Let the States Deal With Transgender Kids
The Departments of Education and Justice released revised guidelines on how schools should handle gender-identity issues.
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Wikimedia The Christian Retreat From Public Life
Rod Dreher makes a powerful argument for communal religious life in his book, The Benedict Option. But he has not wrestled with how to live side by side with people unlike him.
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Dave Kaup / Reuters American Jews Confront a Wave of Bomb Threats
Jewish Community Centers around the country have been bombarded by menacing phone calls. For the most part, people are sad, not scared.
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Courtesy of Shannon Dingle These Conservative Christians Are Opposed to Trump—and Suffering the Consequences
People working in ministry, music, and nonprofit advocacy are facing pressure for their political beliefs.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Donald Trump Declares a Vision of Religious Nationalism
At the annual prayer breakfast in Washington, the president focused on the violent, ideological threats to America.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters First, They Excluded the Irish
President Trump may block entry to foreigners who need public benefits—a proposal rooted in 19th-century laws targeting a wave of impoverished immigrants.
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David Zalubowski / AP Trump Picks a Bioethicist for the Supreme Court
Neil Gorsuch has spent his career considering questions of life’s ends—and beginnings.
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Kamil Krzaczynski / Reuters An Evangelical Christian Defends Trump’s First Week in Office
The radio-show host Eric Metaxas believes protesters and the media are overreacting to the president’s executive order on refugees and immigration.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP ‘Nobody Wants to Run for Office’
Why elite Millennials have an aversion to electoral politics—and how Trump might change their attitudes
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Lenny Ignelzi / AP Where Christian Leaders Stand on Trump's Refugee Policy
Many religious groups have urged the president not to give Christians priority in seeking asylum, but some conservative political organizations back his new ban on refugees.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Trump Administration Pledges Allegiance to Pro-Life America
"We will not rest until we restore a culture of life in America,” vowed Vice President Pence at the March for Life on Friday.
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Why Don't Democrats Take Religion Seriously?
Condescension and hostility toward people of faith has a political cost.
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Josh Shank / Rocket Republic Will the Pro-Life Movement Split With Trump on Issues Other Than Abortion?
The president has quickly moved to restrict abortion. He has also curtailed access for refugees and jeopardized health care for millions of Americans.
