Both supporters and opponents of Donald Trump see his election as signaling a changing of the guard in American politics and culture beyond that of his own proposed policies, even if both camps also share some uncertainty about the contours of those changes. When it comes to the role of religion in the new politics, […]
Confrontations and tensions between Baby Boomers and younger generations in churches and the wider society are nothing new, but these generational rifts are not necessarily following traditional scripts. In the conservative e-journal Public Discourse (November 13), James LaGrand reports that traditionally minded younger church members have been opposing Baby Boomers for their progressive leanings and […]
Despite professionalization, Muslim clergy in the U.S. rely on an informal “Rolodex” of contacts composed of fellow imams, students, and other sources of support to fill leadership positions in American Islam, Nancy Khalil and Safiyah Zaidi write in the journal American Religion (Fall). By this figurative Muslim “Rolodex,” the researchers point to an element they […]
Divisions over same-sex marriage and LGBTQ ordination in the Anglican Communion are now expanding to include new issues related to the nature of the priesthood, including women’s ordination, and deeper matters of biblical interpretation among conservative Anglicans. Writing in First Things magazine (November 6), Gerald McDermott argues that these issues stem from divisions in the […]
In 2023, there were a recorded 2,444 anti-Christian hate crimes documented by police and civil society in 35 European countries, including 232 personal attacks, such as harassment, threats and physical violence, according to a report from the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians (OIDAC). At least 2,000 Christian places of worship were damaged in […]
Young people in the Turkish Black Sea region are increasingly breaking away from Islam and seeking to join Christian communities, reports Evangelical Focus newsletter (November 22). “What is striking,” Johannes Reimer writes, “is that Christian missionaries are rarely responsible for this awakening. For one thing, they have hardly any access to the region, and for […]
While the Orthodox Church has enjoyed special status since 2002 through a concordat-like agreement, the ruling Georgian Dream party, which won the October parliamentary elections with 53.9 percent of the vote, is proposing to make Orthodox Christianity the state religion through a constitutional amendment, reports special correspondent Thomas Guichard in La Croix International (Dec. 2). […]
Muslim and Jewish exchanges and encounters have multiplied in Berlin and in the state of Brandenburg in recent years. Numerous projects of cultural and religious rapprochement and understanding have been most evident in the large city of Berlin, where there has been a “remarkable” growth of encounters between Muslim and Jewish artists and actors as […]
