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Religion

World Religion

The Quiet Hell of Extreme Meditation

A trip to India for total silence.

Michael Finkel Men's Journal Aug 2012 20min Permalink

Politics Religion

The Bible That Oozed Oil

A small Georgia town, a prophecy about Donald Trump, and the story of how a miracle fell apart.

Ruth Graham Slate Feb 2020 20min Permalink

Crime Religion

“My Gang Is Jesus”

Rio de Janeiro drug gangs are embracing evangelical Christianity.

Alex Cuadros Harper's Jan 2020 30min Permalink

Crime Religion

Catholic Church Shields $2 Billion in Assets to Limit Abuse Payouts

An investigation into how the Church moves its money.

Josh Saul Bloomberg Businessweek Jan 2020 15min Permalink

Politics Religion

The Army of Prayer Warriors Fighting Trump’s Impeachment

As the Senate takes up his impeachment trial, white Christian evangelicals remain firmly in the president’s corner.

Sarah Posner Huffington Post Dec 2019 Permalink

Sports Religion

"Ready, Set, Trump"

Can Jerry Falwell Jr. build Liberty University’s football team into the evangelical version of Notre Dame?

Jordan Ritter Conn The Ringer Dec 2019 25min Permalink

Religion

Forgive Us Our Debts

Jubilee Baptist is a quasi-socialist, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming church conducting a bold experiment: focusing on debt, work, and freedom from oppression instead of fear and moralism.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Dec 2019 35min Permalink

Politics Religion

False Idol—Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump

How Evangelicals have claimed Trump as one of their own.

Alex Morris Rolling Stone Dec 2019 25min Permalink

Health Media Religion

The Education of Natalie Jean

For years, Mormon Mommy blogger Natalie Lovin curated a picture-perfect life. Then she left the church—and her husband.

Nona Willis Aronowitz Elle Nov 2019 15min Permalink

Religion

The Hell After ISIS

As ISIS retreats, new horrors emerge for a Sunni family.

Anand Gopal The Atlantic Apr 2016 35min Permalink

Politics World Religion

Weather Reports: Voices From Xinjiang

Firsthand accounts of the largest and most ambitious internment drive of a minority group since Nazi Germany, emerging from a region of totalitarian surveillance and control.

Ben Mauk The Believer Oct 2019 1h30min Permalink

Religion Travel

The American Missionary and the Uncontacted Tribe

Last year, a 26-year-old American missionary set out to convert the world’s most isolated hunter-gatherer tribe. This is the untold story of John Chau’s mission and the tragedy that awaited him.

Doug Bock Clark GQ Aug 2019 40min Permalink

Religion

Sixteen and Evangelical

How can people who once moved as one ultra-religious organism become such dramatically different adults?

Laura Turner Slate Jul 2019 20min Permalink

Best Article Religion

Behold, the Millennial Nuns

An attempt to understand why, after 50 years of decline, more and more young women are suddenly embracing religious life.

Eve Fairbanks Huffington Post Highline Jul 2019 35min Permalink

Best Article Religion

Satan's Accountant

Bruce Wisan received one of the toughest assignments ever thrust upon an accountant: to take control of the assets (and by proxy, followers) of the polygamist Mormon breakaway sect, F.L.D.S., after their prophet, Warren Jeffs, went on the lam and their compound was raided.

Claire Hoffman Portfolio May 2008 25min Permalink

Politics Religion

Tulsi Gabbard Had a Very Strange Childhood

A profile of the long-shot presidential candidate.

Kerry Howley New York Jun 2019 25min Permalink

Best Article Religion

Lost in the Jihad

The case against “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh.

Read more

Lindh will be released from prison this week.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2003 35min Permalink

Religion

Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston

Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life.

Read more

Excerpted from Trick Mirror

Jia Tolentino New Yorker May 2019 25min Permalink

World Religion

Faith, Friendship, and Tragedy at Santa Fe High

Sabika Sheikh, a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan with dreams of changing the world, struck up an unlikely friendship with an evangelical Christian girl. The two became inseparable—until the day a fellow student opened fire.

Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Apr 2019 40min Permalink

Crime Religion

The ‘Sex Cult’ That Preached Empowerment

Inside Nxivm.

Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Times Magazine May 2018 35min Permalink

Best Article Sports Religion

The Curious Case of Sidd Finch

A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.

George Plimpton Sports Illustrated Apr 1985 25min Permalink

Crime Religion

Abuse of Faith

Since 1998, roughly 380 Southern Baptist church leaders and volunteers have faced allegations of sexual misconduct. They left behind more than 700 victims.

Robert Downen, Lise Olsen, John Tedesco Houston Chronicle Feb 2019 25min Permalink

Politics Religion

The Darkness at the Heart of Malheur

On the conspiracy-theorist occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and how they’re fighting against their own best interests.

Hal Herring High Country News Mar 2016 20min Permalink

World Religion

Next Year in Jerusalem

When her brother embraced Orthodox Judaism, the author began to question her own reality and went to Israel to find some answers.

Ellen Willis Rolling Stone Apr 1977 1h20min Permalink

Religion

The Unified Theory Of Ram Dass

“You just stay with the moment.”

Will Welch GQ Style Nov 2018 15min Permalink

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