Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, a case brought ...

Black helicopters roll over the tarmac. From off screen we hear a voice with a generic Southern accent casually intone: “Here’s a Bible verse I think about sometimes, many times. It goes…” The images ...

Talia Lavin is a journalist, author, and sword collector. Her book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America, is available through Hachette.

This article first appeared in The Sword and the Sandwich, Lavin’s newsletter about deadly serious extremism and serious sandwiches. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration ...

Above is a photograph I took in March 2024 of the lobby of Christ for the Nations Institute, a Bible college in Dallas that the Minnesota political murders suspect, Vance Boelter, appears online to ...

It was my absolute pleasure to chat with Dr. Yvonne Chireau, author of the iconic Black Magic and official Hoodoo consultant for Ryan Coogler’s latest smash hit, Sinners. In this delightful ...

This adapted essay is based on excerpts from Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2025), which are reprinted with permission from the author and ...

For a decade and a half, Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripalhas been advocating for the field of religious studies to not only take reports of alienabductions and visits from the dead as seriously as accounts of ...

Benjamin Franklin’s hope and warning, “A republic, if you can keep it,” resonates with too many of us these days. This has especially been the case watching the president-elect nominate his Cabinet, a ...

The ADL over the past year has been ringing the warning bell about Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), going as far as demanding police disrupt the protest ...

On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use ...

On October 12th one of the most remarkable political statements of any religious leader in this or any election season was broadcast live from an all-day rally of tens of thousands of people on the ...