Underneath all the makeup, who was the real Tammy Faye?
John Wigger Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia What is it about televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker that continues...
Religion and society
What are the Jewish High Holy Days? A look at Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and a month of celebrating renewal and moral responsibility
Samuel L. BoydAssistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder Over the next few weeks, members of...
Supreme Court unanimously upholds religious liberty over LGBTQ rights – and nods to a bigger win for conservatives ahead
Morgan MariettaAssociate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell It wasn’t a dramatic expansion of religious rights – not...
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women are bucking the patriarchal, authoritarian stereotype of their community
Michal RaucherAssistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University Ultra-Orthodox women have become the primary breadwinners in their families. Menahem Kahana/AFP...
Famine in the Bible is more than a curse: It is a signal of change and a chance for a new beginning
Joel BadenProfessor of Hebrew Bible, Yale Divinity School As the coronavirus spread rapidly around the world last year, the United Nations...
How the Supreme Court found its faith and put ‘religious liberty’ on a winning streak
Steven K. GreenProfessor of Law, Director of the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy, Willamette University The Supreme Court’s current...
‘Sex addiction’ isn’t a justification for killing, or really an addiction – it reflects a person’s own moral misgivings about sex
Joshua B. GrubbsAssistant Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State UniversityA 21-year-old white man is alleged to have entered three different...
