Maggie Phillips is a freelance writer and former Tablet Journalism Fellow.
Mumford & Sons co-founder Winston Marshall hopes to turn online culture debates into a source of community
The Commons is drawing ‘religion-curious’ people—including atheists, agnostics, and those who are ‘spiritual but not religious’—to discuss everything from spirituality and philosophy to art and technology, in a communal space that fosters a sense of self-discovery and belonging
How a Zoroastrian celebration of the Persian New Year grew into a broad symbol of cultural resilience and political resistance
Ethiopian Orthodox Christians in the U.S. try to translate and preserve their religious texts for a generation growing up in the diaspora—and to reclaim their community’s history
Jewish advisers help a hit television show about the life of Jesus grapple with Judaism
Courtesy of Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie, a rare entertainment that addresses the American miasma of loony politics and ungrounded beliefs
As the educational movement is embraced by the religious right and seen by others as a Trojan horse for Christian nationalism, its leaders seek to transcend political associations
Muslims, Jews, and Catholics wrestle with the religious implications of fake meat
Even as North Carolina’s Lumbees fight for official recognition, the Native American tribe maintains a distinct religious culture, blending Christianity with traditional rituals
Far from the religion’s ancient roots in India, a younger generation in the U.S. looks to a spiritual leader who channels the wisdom of a renowned mystic through his global network of Jain study centers aimed at making the teachings more ‘approachable’
Chabad of Raleigh brought people together last weekend for a Shabbat dinner that illustrated the importance of coming together in spite of fear
What can non-Jews do to stand by the Jewish community during this crisis?
‘Orthobros’ are drawing converts to Orthodox Christianity on social media, but their version of the religion doesn’t mesh with what the faith’s ordained priests are offering
A dispute over school curricula in Maryland shows how American Muslims defy binary partisan thinking
Pentecostals try to find their place within the larger Christian world
A dispatch from the golf mecca of Pinehurst, North Carolina
LGBTQ Catholics consider different ways to fit into the Church
Provincetown’s Unitarian Universalists maintain their progressive traditions in a historic building in the middle of a popular LGBTQ resort town in Massachusetts