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Sign In | Subscribe Ad-Free Latest News Home Recommended RealClearReligion Set this view as default? Yes No Set this view as default? Yes No Benedict XVI on the Threat of Pseudo-Humanism K. Nachrichten-Agentur, NCR De Blasio Endangers Public Health & Religious Freedom Michael Helfand, Tablet The Supreme Court’s Latest Birth Control Case Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News When Can Religious Employers Defy Civil Rights Laws? Ian Millhiser, Vox Accomplishments of Science and Delusions of Scientism Sohrab Ahmari, CM It’s Too Soon for Churches to Reopen Jamie Aten & Kent Annan, Religion News Service Lay Down Your Ventilator for a Friend Daniel Harrell, Christianity Today The Coronavirus Reset Kathryn Lopez, National Review Christians Wanted in Pakistan to Clean Sewers Zia ur-Rehman & Maria Abi-Habib, NYT A COVID-19 Reflection Deanna Othman, Muslim Matters Sign up for RealClearReligion Today Follow RealClearReligion: Facebook | Twitter Watch Religious Services and Other Videos Here RCReligion Analysis The ’Heretics’ Saving Jews from COVID-19 Joe Kolman In late February, as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the US had begun creeping steadily toward 1000, rabbis in the reform,... Read More De Blasio Targets NYC Jewish Community Amidst Rising Global Anti-Semitism Lela Gilbert & Travis Weber New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Jewish-oriented coronavirus tweet of this past week is bad enough. When placed in context of... Read More Holy Envy: What We Learn By Studying Other Faiths David Dollahite In the spring of 2020, around 5,300 colleges and universities across America will grant degrees to almost 3.9 million graduates. Sadly,... Read More More From Real Clear Videos Called out of Corruption and into Christ (Sunday Homily from May 3, 2020) Stop Comparing Your Calling Surah Yusuf Part 9-10: Getting Rid of the Problem Thinking Biblically About the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interview with John MacArthur Benedict XVI on the Threat of Pseudo-Humanism K. Nachrichten-Agentur, NCR The former Pope Benedict XVI said the Catholic Church is threatened by a "worldwide dictatorship of seemingly humanist ideologies." He cited... Read More De Blasio Endangers Public Health & Religious Freedom Michael Helfand, Tablet Ongoing debates over the propriety—and legality—of applying stay-at-home orders to houses of worship have now spilled over into... Read More The Supreme Court’s Latest Birth Control Case Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News The Supreme Court has heard two cases on religion and birth control in the past six years. But, as justices prepare to hear a third challenge... Read More When Can Religious Employers Defy Civil Rights Laws? Ian Millhiser, Vox Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. Biel, are difficult cases, which the Court will hear in a... Read More Accomplishments of Science and Delusions of Scientism Sohrab Ahmari, CM If post-Enlightenment modernity has a single credal axiom, it is that truth is limited to only what can be sensed with the senses, measured... Read More It’s Too Soon for Churches to Reopen Jamie Aten & Kent Annan, Religion News Service Some states are beginning to lift COVID-19 restrictions, like releasing residents from stay-at-home orders, reopening retail and... Read More Lay Down Your Ventilator for a Friend Daniel Harrell, Christianity Today The weeks slide from our fingers as the pandemic’s first wave moderates—whether due to our quarantined culture or the... Read More The Coronavirus Reset Kathryn Lopez, National Review We began the month of May, at the top of a Friday morning, with a necessary interview with the presumptive Democratic presidential... Read More Christians Wanted in Pakistan to Clean Sewers Zia ur-Rehman & Maria Abi-Habib, NYT Before Jamshed Eric plunges deep below Karachi’s streets to clean out clogged sewers with his bare hands, he says a little prayer to... Read More A COVID-19 Reflection Deanna Othman, Muslim Matters The crisis that has enveloped the entire planet, forcing human beings into their homes to seek refuge from an invisible invader, has led many... Read More RCReligion Analysis The ’Heretics’ Saving Jews from COVID-19 Joe Kolman In late February, as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the US had begun creeping steadily toward 1000, rabbis in the reform,... Read More De Blasio Targets NYC Jewish Community Amidst Rising Global Anti-Semitism Lela Gilbert & Travis Weber New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Jewish-oriented coronavirus tweet of this past week is bad enough. When placed in context of... Read More Holy Envy: What We Learn By Studying Other Faiths David Dollahite In the spring of 2020, around 5,300 colleges and universities across America will grant degrees to almost 3.9 million graduates. Sadly,... Read More More From Real Clear Videos Called out of Corruption and into Christ (Sunday Homily from May 3, 2020) Stop Comparing Your Calling Surah Yusuf Part 9-10: Getting Rid of the Problem Thinking Biblically About the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interview with John MacArthur Religion & Politics What if We Loved Both Accused and Accuser? David French , The Dispatch Once again, our nation is faced with the painful process of sorting through grave sexual assault allegations against a powerful man. Once again, the public assessment of the veracity of those claims is lining up all-too-neatly with the partisan needs of the moment. Those who object to the rush to judgment against the accused will often ask if how we’d respond if, say, Joe Biden or Brett Kava... Read More more from Religion & Politics The ’Heretics’ Saving Jews from COVID-19 Joe Kolman , RealClearReligion ObamaCare Comes for the Nuns. Again Editorial Board , Wall Street Journal Nuns vs. the Coronavirus Emma Green , Atlantic Finding Peace in the Pandemic Lama Owens, Julie Badal , Tricycle Religious Persecution & Discrimination Pork Chop Anti-Semitism Alvin Rosenfeld , Tablet Hostility to Jews never entirely disappears, but there are times when it becomes relatively quiescent. We are not living in such a time. Since the turn of the millennium, Jew-hatred has returned to the public sphere with a new vigor and on a global scale. The good news is that in no Western country are we seeing state-sponsored or state-sanctioned anti-Semitism. The bad news is that the volume of ... Read More more from Religious Persecution & Discrimination Bill de Blasio Finds His Scapegoat Bari Weiss , New York Times NYC Owes Samaritan’s Purse Gratitude, Not Bigotry Kaylee McGhee , Washington Examiner How Not to Challenge the Integralists Nathan Pinkoski , Law & Liberty De Blasio Targets NYC Jewish Community Amidst Rising Global Anti-Semitism Lela Gilbert, Travis Weber , RealClearReligion Religious Freedom What if We Loved Both Accused and Accuser? David French , The Dispatch Once again, our nation is faced with the painful process of sorting through grave sexual assault allegations against a powerful man. Once again, the public assessment of the veracity of those claims is lining up all-too-neatly with the partisan needs of the moment. Those who object to the rush to judgment against the accused will often ask if how we’d respond if, say, Joe Biden or Brett Kava... Read More Religious Freedom De Blasio Targets NYC Jewish Community Amidst Rising Global Anti-Semitism Lela Gilbert, Travis Weber , RealClearReligion Religious Liberty and the Common Good William Haun , National Affairs Religious Freedoms in India Deteriorating Michelle Boorstein, Joanna Slater , Washington Post Houses of Worship Prepare to Open With Caution Kelsey Dallas , Deseret News Today’s Topics Religion & Society The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity Two Painful Truths of America’s Religious Culture War A Push to Deny Muslims Religious Freedom Gains Steam The Dogmatic Rivalry at the Heart of America Theorizing the Moral Foundations of Democracy Religious Liberty: Not Just for Social...