A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for ...

Lisa Webster, a founding editor of Religion Dispatches, holds a Ph.D. in religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and an M.A. in comparative literature from Columbia University. She ...

We Were Liars is the latest in a series of television shows about obscenely wealthy people’s lavish holiday accommodations ...

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart died yesterday. He’ll be remembered in many ways—as a charismatic preacher and ...

The Assemblies of God extended grace while demanding a modicum of accountability: a year-long preaching hiatus and two years of probation. In a move that would define the rest of his ministry, ...

This week marks the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide. Though celebrated by the more than half ...

Despite having followed this race for months—“don’t rank Cuomo” is less a Gotham-specific voter mandate than a lifestyle—I only learned Tuesday that ComradeI mean Candidate Zohran is the son of Dr.