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“Glory Be to God”: Trump’s Religious Framing of the Iran War and What It Reveals
Inside a 24-hour window that also included an excluded Catholic service at the Pentagon.
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Why the Iran War Isn’t Going as Planned: The Religion the West Keeps Misreading
Five weeks into the conflict, the US and Israel have expanded strikes across Iran, hitting infrastructure in and around Tehran, while Iran k…
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1888 For Dummies: An Explainer
I have been hearing about 1888 my entire life. It came up at church the way certain things always come up at church – with an air of…
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They’re Not Coming for Hate Speech. They’re Coming for Theology.
Finland just convicted a parliamentarian for a 20-year-old church pamphlet. In Canada, legislators want to take away the religious-opinion d…
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The Chaplain Crisis: Pentagon's Religious Accommodation Battles Reach Boiling Point
Illustration of Chaplain WASHINGTON — For more than two centuries, the military chaplain has occupied a singular position in American…
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The Hedgehog’s Bow: Ottawa’s Unholy Alliance of Uranium and Censorship
OTTAWA. There is a particular brand of official mendacity that can only be practiced by those who believe themselves to be pragmatic. In the…
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The Edifice That Wasn’t
Somewhere in Havana, a building constructed in 1927 is still standing. Nobody built anything like it after the revolution, because the revol…
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Supreme Court Strikes Colorado's Conversion Therapy Ban 8-1, Rules Counselors' Talk Is Speech, Not Conduct
The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on March 31, 2026, in Chiles v. Salazar. The decision holds that Colorado cannot ban licensed counselors from us…
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Europe's Secular Crackdown and the American Exception
Illustration France calls it laïcité — a word that translates roughly as secularism but carries the full weight of two centu…
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Spain Killed a 25-Year-Old Psychiatric Patient Last Week. Her Father Fought in Every Court to Stop It.
Noelia Castillo during her interview on television in Spain Noelia Castillo’s death on March 26, 2026, was legal under Spanish law…