Before the religious right co-opted the issue, the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion worked to merge religion and reproductive rights.

The New Apostolic Reformation doesn’t always admit its own existence, but it’s growing in influence in the Republican Party.

The Federalist Society kingpin has exerted more influence on the country’s rightward drift than almost anyone in conservative circles, including presidents. He’s not done by a long shot.

With a new president, and hard-won commitments for survivors of the sex abuse scandal that shook the faithful, the organization takes a first halting step toward healing.

America’s preeminent Protestant denomination is tearing itself apart over its leaders’ long-running cover-up of abusers in its ranks. But there’s a deeper reckoning that’s being avoided.

A burgeoning new field of spiritual counseling promises to cleanse the faithful of far-right religious ideas. But is this just swapping one kind of snake oil with another?

The court’s liberal and conservative bloc combined to deliver a needle-threading ruling on a major religious freedom challenge.

Across the country, right-wing Catholic clerics are weaponizing their rites to own the libs.

Under the guise of “religious liberty,” the conservative justices are privileging certain Americans at the expense of the rest of us.

Having declared victory in its war on Backpage and sex work, the liberal-conservative coalition has pivoted to porn.

The son of the late evangelical titan may be embroiled in a scandal made for reality TV, but it’s not as tawdry as his Trumpian path to riches.

Evangelicals have successfully promoted a depoliticized vision of their movement. Its fundamental principles have plenty in common with Trump.

Those who see Trump as a messianic figure believe the coronavirus will put a fallen world right again.

How today’s religious right functions as a shadow political party

The right's fixation on trans youth has found its new target: criminalizing doctors who provide puberty blockers and hormones.

"First Things" has become the premiere journal for proponents of a religious state.

What Ireland’s abortion fight and the Trump administration’s war on immigrants say about the role of families in conservative politics

How lax homeschooling laws protect child abusers

Not even pedophilia is out of bounds for a political movement that is less animated by religiosity than resentment.

This weekend's annual gathering was evidence that the religious right never had much quarrel with far-right populism.