Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart died yesterday. He’ll be remembered in many ways—as a charismatic preacher and talented singer (Swaggart was Jerry Lee Lewis' cousin). But perhaps his most lasting legacy ...

This week it was revealed that White House deputy chief of staff and avid White nationalist Stephen Miller, the man behind ...

This week marks the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed same-sex ...

Against all odds and the will of billionaires and establishment Democrats, Zohran Mamdani is the 2025 Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City. The New York Times (about which the less said the ...

Above is a photograph I took in March 2024 of the lobby of Christ for the Nations Institute, a Bible college in Dallas that the Minnesota political murders suspect, Vance Boelter, appears online to ...

Pronatalism has become a pet project for a certain subset of the Right. Indeed, the ideology dovetails nicely with longstanding Republican priorities like banning abortion and limiting access to birth ...

It was my absolute pleasure to chat with Dr. Yvonne Chireau, author of the iconic Black Magic and official Hoodoo consultant for Ryan Coogler’s latest smash hit, Sinners. If you don’t know her work, ...

There are many pleasures for students of the Catholic Church in Conclave—which recently received eight Oscar nominations—from the glimpses behind the doors of the uber-secretive papal conclave itself ...

Despite this singular body of work, How to Think Impossibly may be Kripal’s strangest book yet. It describes encounters with mantis-like aliens and other things that serious scholars aren’t supposed ...

Trump’s nominee for US Ambassador to Israel is Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas and noted Christian Zionist, as Ben Lorber points out. Christian Zionism in many cases is not about ...

With Trump’s second presidency, Christian Zionism may be returning to the White House stronger than ever before. His recent nomination of Mike Huckabee as US ambassador to Israel and Pete Hegseth as ...