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Religion Dispatches
Polygamy and LDS scripture historicity also addressed in biggest revisions since 1981.
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Religion Dispatches
When is touching your toes just touching your toes, and when is it an effort to indoctrinate small children in Hinduism?
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Religion Dispatches
Can America’s favorite celebrity Christian rebrand Southern Baptists?
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Religion Dispatches
Perhaps it wasn’t just the pope’s health that sent him into retirement, but his consternation at our increasingly networked lives.
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Religion Dispatches
Not likely. But different story for Mormonism’s women leaders.
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Religion Dispatches
Krewe du Jieux parades through the French Quarter every year, tossing bagels and handing out “Jew eggs,” small plastic eggs containing a yarmulke-wearing baby.
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Religion Dispatches
What would Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark think of public school Bible courses that taught that Jewish festivals are actually typological predictions of Jesus, that the “African races” are descendants of Noah’s cursed son Ham, that biblical stories about angels may have referred to extraterrestrial visitors, or that Genesis’ six-day creation story is scientifically accurate if interpreted correctly?
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Religion Dispatches
Who does an interfaith NFL-spiritual-but-not-religious family root for? It’s complicated.
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