Religion Archives

Viewfinder: Holding Church Service in the Wake of Hurricane Michael

Worshipers attend Sunday service in the parking lot of Hiland Park Baptist Church on October 14th, 2018, in Panama City, Florida. The church building was damaged by Hurricane Michael.

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

Evangelicals’ Porn Viewing Is on the Rise

But frequent churchgoers and Biblical literalists have successfully resisted the temptation.

Tom Jacobs

An immigrant family from Honduras boards transport to an Immigrant Respite Center near McAllen, Texas.

Social Justice

How Catholic Communities Are Crowdfunding Fairer Trials for Immigrants

With Jeff Sessions reportedly pressuring judges to deport immigrants, diocese across the country are gathering fee money for the legal representation that many undocumented people lack.

Massoud Hayoun

Education

The State of Homeschooling in America

Today's homeschool advocates are parents who don't believe that the current school model is best, or enough, for their children.

Elena Silva

Sister Mildred Gross, provincial of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ convent, on October 31, 1992, during a news conference on the recent killing of five of their missionary sisters in Liberia.

Letter From Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Nuns vs. Big Gas

The Adorers of the Blood of Christ, an order of Catholic nuns that define themselves as advocates of Earth, square off against the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline.

Rachel Riederer

A woman holds rosary beads in Vatican City, Vatican.

Social Justice

The Catholic Church Considers an Appeal to Welcome LGBT People

A Catholic conference heard an appeal from a U.S. priest on Thursday calling for the church to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

Emily Moon

Baphomet serves as a go-to signifier for the Satanic Temple.

Social Justice

What Is the Satanic Temple, and How Did a Goat-Headed Statue End Up at the Arkansas State Capitol?

The non-theistic religious organization has challenged Christian dominance in governmental action across the nation for years.

Jack Denton

Altar boys prepare ahead of the Sunday Mass celebration at the Sacred Heart Church in Harare, Zimbabwe, on August 5th, 2018. Zimbabweans went to church for the first time since contested elections and post-poll violence shook the country, with clergymen leading prayers for peace.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Post-Election Prayer in Zimbabwe

Altar boys prepare ahead of the Sunday Mass celebration at the Sacred Heart Church in Harare, Zimbabwe, on August 5th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

How Christian Nationalism Begets Political Conservatism

New research finds that fused identity apparently produces a predisposition toward authoritarianism and support for punitive punishments.

Tom Jacobs

New United States citizen Mosammat Rasheda Akter, originally Bangladesh, holds her seven-month-old daughter Fahmida as she sings the U.S. National Anthem during naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library on July 3rd, 2018, in New York City. Two hundred immigrants from 50 countries became citizens during the ceremony.

Social Justice

Assessing a Troubling Trend of Racial and Religious Harassment in New York City

Among the 3,000 Muslim, Jewish, and Sikh residents surveyed, some 38 percent said they had been verbally harassed or taunted because of their race or faith.

Rahima Nasa