january 6th insurrection

There’s a reason religion and politics are forbidden topics in polite conversation: they’re divisive. Mixing the two is doubly so. President Joe Biden is a deeply religious man who turns to his faith…

As the United States prepares for the end of a nightmarish one-term presidency that seemed to drag on forever, Americans continue to unpack the January 6 insurrection that now even soon-to-be Senate…

On Wednesday, January 6, a day now infamous for many Americans, I was pulled from my daily work tasks by a colleague’s text urging me to turn on the television and stop all work. We all know what…

This Religious Freedom Day, January 16 th, we want to highlight the idea that religious freedom is inescapably linked with reproductive freedom. We cannot fully have one without the other. Religious…

A month ago, I argued here on RD that America’s national conversation about Christianity is “fundamentally unserious.” Not because, as conservative Christian commentator Bonnie Kristian would have it…

“Be there, will be wild!” Trump tweeted at his supporters on December 19, thousands of whom showed up in Washington, DC, several weeks later at their leader’s urging. They climbed walls, waved Trump…

While the horrific scenes of the invasion and occupation of the US Capitol building were played out on television, I happened to be in a radio interview for my new book, God at War. The reporter asked…

The relative quiet in the wake of the election lulled many to a sense of security. Yet, White supremacist and “Patriot” militia organizing often surges when these movements lose ground in the electoral arena, shifting emphasis from ballot to bullet.

UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET January 6: Hours after this essay was published, Trump supporters breached security and entered the Capitol, spurred on by Trump himself. Their goal was to interrupt Congress as…

UPDATE April 21: On April 20, after this article appeared, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Texas’ ban on all elective abortions, including those induced through medication. COVID-19 has…