Religion

Convincing rural voters to walk away from public schools could be a greater obstacle than expected for the GOP

Trump’s image as a vigilante “peacemaker” reflects the religiously-tinged violence of the American frontier

What Pete Hegseth’s record says about where he would lead the Department of Defense

What a thousand-year-old Indigenous prayer teaches us about reciprocity and healing from the destructive consumption of our society

A rural Wisconsin pastor explains why God’s compassion has no room for hate

And how voters can use the tools of democracy to counter their plans

A network of right-wing billionaires have bankrolled a war against public education. Now they’re stepping up attacks on rural legislators—but communities are fighting back.

The inclusion of “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance was a sectarian move whose exclusionary effects are increasingly evident in today’s religious landscape

Myth-making in the early American republic

In an age overrun by our relentless desire for more—whether more wealth or more productivity from limited soil—Wendell Berry’s writings offer a way to find wholeness in life’s finitude

A traditional prayer of communal gratitude