Bob Mims ("The Salt Lake Tribune," January 18, 2018) A petition campaign demanding a halt to the LDS Church’s practice of closed-door, one-on-one interviews by bishops with children — sometim...
Leila Fadel ("NPR," January 10, 2018) On a recent night in Chicago, a Muslim preacher sits on the floor in the center of an ethnically mixed and mostly young group of men and women. Around him, a...
Emily McFarlan Miller ("RNS," January 4, 2018) With the recent death of its prophet and president Thomas S. Monson, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will name a new “prophet, see...
Charles Marsh ("Religion & Politics," January 3, 2018) On Monday, November 6, Robert Jeffress, the senior minister of First Baptist Dallas, told the hosts of “Fox and Friends” that a mass sho...
Adelle M. Banks ("RNS," January 3, 2018) WASHINGTON (RNS) — After lawsuits and a Supreme Court decision, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a new policy extending disaster relie...
Wendy Cadge ("RNS," January 3, 2018) Traveling in the new year? It is very likely there is a chapel or meditation room tucked away somewhere in one of the airports you’ll pass through. Sixteen ...
Benjamin Park ("RNS," January 4, 2018) If tradition holds, Thomas S. Monson, who died Tuesday (Jan. 2), will be replaced as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by the mos...
Yonat Shimron ("RNS," January 10, 2018) San Jose, Calif. - Tucked behind a light industrial area of self-storage warehouses and auto-parts stores is a small encampment of homeless people who live...
Jack Jenkins ("RNS," January 8, 2018) Washington — When President Donald Trump announced in December he would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and call for the U.S. embassy to be mo...
Katherine Stewart ("The New York Times," January 6, 2018) Looking at it, you’d think that the Museum of the Bible was, in fact, a museum. But the organizers of Revolution 2017, a recent gatheri...
Patton Dodd ("The Atlantic," January 7, 2018) If there is ever a competition for the title of Busiest Minister in America, the smart money will be on Yoan Mora, senior pastor of Primera Iglesia C...
Michelle Boorstein and Sarah Pulliam Bailey ("The Washington Post," January 8, 2018) As Israel has shot to the top of President Trump’s agenda, world leaders have looked for the perspective of ...
Peggy Fletcher Stack ("The Salt Lake Tribune," January 7, 2018) Two years ago, senior apostle Russell M. Nelson stared straight into a camera at Brigham Young University-Hawaii and confidently co...
Christine Hauser ("The New York Times," January 11, 2018) The new United States ambassador to the Netherlands refused on Wednesday to answer questions about his 2015 statement that politicians an...
Richard Flory ("RNS," January 10, 2018) The popular view of California is of a liberal, godless region, a land of possibilities that is open to experimentation in all things. As novelist Wallace ...
Newsweek ("Cristina Maza," January 18, 2018) Five American Muslims filed a lawsuit against FBI Director Christopher Wray and other members of the government because they believe they were put on ...
Roxanne Stone ("RNS," January 10, 2018) America is currently experiencing a reckoning in terms of gender violence and harassment. Countless women have begun speaking out about the abuse they’ve...
Yonat Shimron ("RNS," January 10, 2018) Call it the WikiLeaks of the religion world. A new website called FaithLeaks aims to bring transparency to the workings of religious congregations and deno...
Adelle M. Banks ("RNS," January 11, 2018) The suspension of a popular evangelical university chaplain has highlighted tensions over same-sex marriage in a growing Protestant denomination that for...
Yonat Shimron ("RNS," January 18, 2018) To hear it from the Trump administration, Muslim extremists pose the greatest risk to Americans today. Shortly after a judge blocked his ban on travelers f...
Emma Green ("The Atlantic," January 18, 2018) The first time Ashley McGuire had a baby, she and her husband had to wait 20 weeks to learn its sex. By her third, they found out at 10 weeks with a ...
Jack Jenkins ("RNS," January 19, 2018) Washington — In 2017, Kristen Day was one of relatively few women to attend both the record-breaking Women’s March, whose organizers voiced strong suppo...
Jacob Lupfer ("RNS," January 18, 2018) On Friday (Jan. 19), nearly 45 years after the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, hundreds of thousands will rally in the streets of Washington. The annual Marc...
Erick Erickson ("The Washington Post," January 19, 2018) The vulgarity President Trump reportedly used last week to describe certain countries in the developing world has gotten a lot of attentio...
Sarah Pulliam Bailey ("The Washington Post," January 19, 2018) The Trump administration has announced new regulations and a new division responsible for handling complaints from health-care worke...
Monique Parsons ("Religion & Politics," January 17, 2018) It was June 12, 2016, and a man named Omar Mateen had just opened fire inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people ...
Julie Zauzmer ("The Washington Post," January 19, 2018) Atlanta — As he hands each person the Communion wafer, the priest watches his congregants walk back to their seats. They drop to their kn...
Adelle M. Banks ("RNS," January 19, 2018) Christian evangelist Luis Palau, who has preached across the globe for five decades, says he has late-stage lung cancer. “Everything is ready and if th...
Adelle M. Banks ("RNS," January 19, 2018) Washington — Author Stephen Mansfield, who has written about the faith of former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, says the current occupant ...
Karlyn Bowman ("Forbes," January 3, 2018) It is hard to imagine a pollster asking a question like this today, but in 1939, Elmo Roper did just that. The pollster asked whether sexual relations fo...