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A prayer for the 2026 midterm elections.
The theology we hear from Hegseth cloaks national interest and personal self-interest in the language of the divine.
PRRI’s new survey got plenty of attention, but it broke cardinal rules of public opinion research.
The attack on Abdul El-Sayed reveals how Christian nationalism mutates religious freedom into a privilege reserved for a few.
Augustine knew that the power to punish doesn’t make anyone innocent.
How do we teach children to say basic but radical things so that we can change the future?
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the spiritual care of Catholic members of the U.S. armed forces, raised a series of objections to the unprecedented plan to broadcast the execution.

At the beginning of the second Trump administration, a homemade yard sign appeared in my neighborhood. It quoted the German Protestant pastor Martin Niemöller’s “First They Came” poem.

photo of data center in Lowell, MA
When big data is in your backyard.
lettuce head with American flag planted on top
Noncommittal phrases about (possible) upcoming elections ... and lettuce.