4+ day, 33+ min ago   (541+ words) (ANALYSIS) In 1843, Karl Marx called religion “the opium of the people.” He framed faith as a cheap chemical cheat code used by the ruling class to keep peasants from running riot. Marx envisioned a future in which human beings would…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (831+ words) NASHVILLE — Little over a decade ago, J.D. Vance was an atheist Yale Law School graduate obsessed with pursuing achievement in private life. Today he is a United States vice president who professes faith in Christ and rejects upward mobility as…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (982+ words) About 25 years ago, I wrote two “On Religion” columns examining the Church of Rome’s priest shortage — through the eyes of faithful mothers, with the help of a priest who had led a seminary. The headline: “Fathers, mothers & Catholic sons.” The…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (991+ words) OKLAHOMA CITY — María Ruiz Scaperlanda is looking for a miracle. More specifically, she’s seeking a miracle that can be attributed — and authenticated — to the intercession of Blessed Stanley Francis Rother. That’s the final step for Rother — the first person born…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (161+ words) Religion in the United States “works” differently for Asian Americans compared to African Americans. The average white American doesn’t think about religion the same way, or practice their faith in the same patterns, as Hispanic Americans. Race is a central…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1233+ words) After 11 seasons, PBS’s “Masterpiece Mystery!” series “Grantchester” has come to an end. For more than a decade, viewers returned to the quiet village of Cambridgeshire to watch an unlikely crime-solving duo: Anglican vicars and Det. Inspector George “Geordie” Keating. Between…...