Why the mayoral candidate should lean into his religion more The post Zohran Mamdani Is Not Muslim Enough first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
One of the central tensions of American life thrums in the double meaning of “identity.” On the one hand, the word refers to a unique, irreplaceable, individual self, which we are summoned constantly to reveal and cherish. On the other, “identity” refers to the demographic categories by which we are linked to other examples of| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
From Pam Bondi’s “Anti-Christian Bias” task force to Marco Rubio’s faith-focused State Department, Trump’s second administration is remaking the federal bureaucracy in its own religious image. The post Converting the Deep State first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
The gunslinging mojo of a fitness craze The post CrossFit and the Frontier Spirit first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
An atheist debater turned Catholic intellectual, Leah Libresco Sargeant is building a new kind of feminism grounded in faith, reason, and the dignity of dependence The post The Connector first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Two years after the Hamas attacks, Jews must be content to flourish with a certain amount of antisemitism The post More Than Zero first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Cat Stevens’s new memoir addresses the pitfalls of being famous while Muslim The post From a Wild World to the Straight Path first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson is having a moment. The 72-year-old Christian nationalist was recently the subject of a CNN story. He just planted a church in Washington, D.C. The secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, is a disciple. In the age of Trump, Christian nationalists like Wilson, who once presided over a fringe wing of American| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
The growing gender divide on social issues is becoming a chasm The post Boys Line Up on the Right, Girls on the Left first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Solace comes from strange places. In the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, I found mine in a once-famous novelist who sold millions of books in the 1960s but is largely forgotten today, a hyper-Zionist whose romantic views of Israel bear little resemblance to the grim realities of today: Leon Uris.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
In a new book, Cameron Awkward-Rich takes inspiration from pioneering, gender-complicated, Black Episcopal priest Pauli Murray The post Ahead of Their Time first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Five parents discuss Ilana Kurshan’s memoir about reading to her children The post Between the Covers first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Adam Valen Levinson yearned to learn Arabic. He did and wrote about it in The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East. His publisher, W.W. Norton, successfully placed an excerpt in Literary Hub, the website widely known as LitHub. The excerpt ran on Dec. 7, 2017. It begins with Levinson—who| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Only a small sliver of the students who attend the University of Austin (henceforth UATX) already care about writing. True in any school, perhaps, but in other schools, there are many students interested in writing-adjacent things: other arts, like dance, or critical disciplines engaged with art, such as art history. UATX disproportionately draws young people| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
In most job interviews, asking candidates’ wives if they will prioritize their husband’s career, contribute unpaid labor to the organization, and have children would be downright absurd, but for some evangelical churches, it’s the norm. Baylor University historian Beth Allison Barr is a pastor’s wife whose latest book, Becoming the Pastor’s Wife (Brazos, 2025), unpacks| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
The most successful social movements sustain themselves in part because they’re fun. The activist push in the LGBTQIA+ community that began with the Stonewall riots in 1969 and proceeded through the AIDS epidemic and the legalization of same-sex marriage went hand in hand with an outpouring of culture. William S. Burroughs novels and Stone Butch| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
On July 8, 2025, Alberto Rojas, the Bishop of San Bernardino, offered a dispensation to faithful in his diocese from the holy Catholic obligation of attending Mass. This dispensation extends to those who have genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions. This document is the first dispensation for reasons of immigration enforcement in U.S. history. The| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Jeffrey Kripal is one of our most fascinating scholars of religious studies. For thirty years, he has combined rigorous, even obsessive, readings of religious texts with expansive philosophical and theoretical capacity; he works both small and big. But he has also courted controversy. In the first phase of his career, Kripal’s work on eroticism and| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
