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America and the Exodus
The story of Passover is not just a Jewish one. Our founding fathers were profoundly inspired by it. So was Cecil B. DeMille.
Meir Soloveichik
Hallowed Be Thy App
Since it was launched in 2018, the Christian prayer app Hallow has been downloaded 23 million times. Is this the beginning of a religious revival?
Madeleine Kearns
Things Worth Remembering: Death Is a Friend
My ancestors, the ancient Celts, understood that mortality is not an enemy, but something to be embraced.
Sean Fischer
What I Discovered Deep in the Canyons
If I’d come here to hear romantic platitudes about the past, I’d come to the wrong place.
A.M. Hickman
WATCH: Does the West Need a Religious Revival?
Ross Douthat and Ayaan Hirsi Ali face off against Michael Shermer and Adam Carolla in our latest live debate.
Isaac Grafstein
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The Life and Death of the Oldest Hostage in Gaza
Shlomo Mantzur fled Iraq as a child. He tried to never look back. Then came October 7, 2023.
Matti Friedman
Does the West Need a Religious Revival? Join Us for Our Next Live Debate.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ross Douthat face off against Adam Carolla and Michael Shermer on February 27 in Austin, Texas.
The Free Press
The Miracle of the Light
Winston Churchill wasn’t Jewish. But he understood, from the burning bush to the Maccabees to the modern state of Israel, the meaning of the flame.
Meir Soloveichik
A Merry Little Chrismukkah
Hanukkah and Christmas don’t just share a calendrical coincidence.
Liel Leibovitz
I Took Religion Out of Christmas. I Regret It.
I decided my family could do without Christianity. I didn’t realize how much structure and beauty it could give us.
Larissa Phillips
Inside Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse.’ Plus. . .
Syria’s Christians fear what comes next.
Oliver Wiseman
Syria’s Christians: ‘We Have No Reason to Trust Al-Jolani’
In the wake of Assad’s fall, Syria’s 500,000 Christians are living in limbo. Here’s what they told us about their fears.
Madeleine Rowley
The Young Catholic Women Bringing Back Veils
A new generation of worshippers is longing for a ‘lost type of Catholicism.’
Madeleine Kearns
How Does the Pope Really Feel About Gay Rights?
Francis has reportedly warned against the Catholic church’s widespread atmosphere of frociaggine—literally, faggotry.
Mattia Ferraresi
WATCH: An Atheist Finds Faith Among the Mormons
‘These guys produced the last normal Republican presidential nominee. Who am I to judge?’
Ben Kawaller
Things Worth Remembering: The Resurrection of the Body and the Immortality of the Soul
Preacher-poet John Donne gave voice to his faith with a sermon on how God will raise the dead.
Douglas Murray
Latinos Are Flocking to Evangelical Christianity
From California to Florida, Latinos are turning their backs on Catholicism and embracing a new faith that’s changing the face of America.
Marie Arana
What Actually Happened Underneath the Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters?
Why (almost) everything you think you know about the Brooklyn synagogue tunnels is wrong.
Eli Lake
We Were Taught to Hate Jews
‘It’s like asking me how often I drink water. Antisemitism was everywhere.’ Apostates, former Islamists, and an almost-terrorist on how they changed…
Madeleine Rowley
It Took 12 Years and $96 Million to Build a Temple in New Jersey
But we Hindus don’t even need a place to practice our religion. The Free Press’s Kiran Sampath reports.
Kiran Sampath
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Why I Am Now a Christian
I was born a Muslim in Somalia. Then I became an atheist. But secular tools alone can’t equip us for civilizational war.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Unbearable Burden of Being
After a miracle drug unexpectedly saved Jimmy Menkaus’s life, he has no idea how to live it.
Jeff Bloodworth
Can You Find God in a Bikini?
In a city where religion is dead, the young search for a higher power—in a sauna with Diplo.
Olivia Reingold
Fresh off a Supreme Court Win, the Praying Coach Takes the Field
After seven years of fighting, Joe Kennedy—who was benched for praying on the 50-yard line after high school football games—speaks to TFP on the eve of…
Julia Duin
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