In her book Antisemitism, historian and diplomat Deborah Lipstadt offers this definition: “An antisemite is someone who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.” When someone criticizes Jews more ...

Department of Justice lawyers have asked a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court decision that kept an IRS ban on ...

When I learned that writer Annie Dillard died, I did something I haven’t done since my dad died four years ago. I knelt on ...

Job can be taken as an example of someone who has achieved a certain level of virtue by way of his wealth—and thus is able to ...

O the . . . mind has mountains . . .Hold them cheap; / May who ne’er hung there.”—Gerard Manley HopkinsSometimes wildernessis not on a mountainor in the desert,but internal, stormsin mind, heart, ...

In 2015, Ted Cruz went to Liberty University to announce his run for president. Liberty had long been a bastion of dispensationalism, an evangelical worldview with a premillennial eschatology and a ...

Kinney taught history of religion at Suffolk County Community College and is author of the forthcoming memoir The Chaplain’s ...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic novella The Little Prince has been translated into more than 600 languages and dialects, more than any other nonreligious work in history. Translation of this ...

. It’s been a truism for at least two decades: the rise of a cohort of people who are unaffiliated with any historical religious tradition and yet drawn to practices that offer an entrée into ...

In 1953, Lucille Ball, the star of the hit show I Love Lucy, was up for an Emmy for “Most Outstanding Personality.” She ...

Mister Rogers was from Squirrel Hill neighborhood in Pittsburgh, and it was here that he built a career on a small, perhaps radical idea: that showing up for your neighbor, day after day, is its own ...

The mask is the message: the performance of an identity, a choreographed display of power, a visual cue of contempt for Black ...