A new memoir by the former coach of the Giants offers a human counterbalance to the heroics and chest-thumping of the Super Bowl.

A book is on a library shelf one day, then it’s gone. Any librarian or educator who stands up against those efforts runs the risk of being threatened.

Jean Shepherd’s tales of his Indiana boyhood inspired the movie, which smoothed out some of the rougher edges.

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As tensions between Muslims and Jews worsen abroad, an American Jew working for an Islamic nonprofit organization has received vitriol from Jewish communities for his criticism of Israel.

The party’s convention gave voice to the religious principle of love as the root of liberal policies, a linking of policy and faith usually associated with the Republican Party.

The college’s annual Parents’ Parting Ceremony offers a mix of African music and dance, black Christian preaching and liberation theology.

Black quarterbacks led both teams in Sunday’s Super Bowl. But for much of pro football history, Black players were steered away from the position because of racist assumptions.

A teaching program at Notre Dame helps those agonizing over not whom to date but whether to answer a call to join the priesthood or a religious order.

Elizabethtown College, an unassuming dot on the intellectual landscape, has become the nation’s beta tester in the emerging field of interfaith studies.

Saba Ahmed, a relative newcomer to the Washington lobbying scene, has taken on the improbable and perhaps ill-fated mission of attracting Muslim voters to the Republican Party.

An audio documentary and companion book about the brilliant journalist who covered the AIDS epidemic as he was dying of the disease

The work stoppage follows months of negotiations and a frustration by union workers that they have not shared the fruits of the company’s recent success.

The shameful display of Trump and his Islamophobic advisors chumming it up with the world’s most politically regressive Muslim nation shows U.S. Muslims just don't matter to the so-called Muslim world

A group called Footsteps helps those breaking away from fundamentalist forms of Orthodox Judaism.

Chie Nishio, a photographer born in Japan, chronicled the lives of Lubavitch-Chabad Hasidim in Brooklyn, including the movement’s leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Seniors at Yeshiva High School in Boca Raton, Fla., are taking a course in the Judaic practices and traditions surrounding death, dying and grief.

On Oct. 21, 1967, teams from two historically black colleges, Jackson State and Grambling, desegregated Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Miss.

Abby Kelman is one of the very few lawyers representing rabbis and cantors in contract negotiations with synagogue boards.

In a joint letter, news organizations warned that the indictment of Julian Assange “sets a dangerous precedent” that could chill reporting about matters of national security.

Supporters who looked past the former president’s admirers in bigoted corners of the far right, and his own use of antisemitic tropes, now are drawing a line. “He legitimizes Jew hatred and Jew...

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Humphrey’s efforts against bigotry launched his national political career and changed the nature of the state he represented

André Brink, who died on February 6th at the age of seventy-nine, chose to live and write as the restless conscience of his people.

The Rev. David Couper, a former police chief turned Episcopal minister, believes an apology can close the gap between white police officers and the black communities they serve.

“Up the Down Staircase,” Bel Kaufman’s classic 1965 novel about a New York City schoolteacher, remains the most enduring account we have of teachers’ lives.

The ambitious and the desperate come to Watford City, N.D., drawn by the energy industry jobs. It is the Rev. Brian Gross’s job to minister to them.

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He brought his own sometimes painful blue-collar experiences to bear in acclaimed stories exploring issues of race, class and power in American life.

The term perfectly describes people who cloak toxic intolerance in patriotism. Let’s bring it back

Mildred Moss, a professor of home economics who died this month, sought to subvert a culture of racism in the 1960s by helping to prepare student-athletes for life.

It is tempting to find reassurance in the comparison: America survived the turmoil, division and bloodshed of 1968. I find no basis for such solace

Not since the peak years of the civil rights movement has Watch Night carried the power and import it will in 2020.

For over a half-century, scholars in a range of faiths have been assembling scriptural arguments in favor of gay rights and ultimately marriage equality.

The governor believes he needs to cater to and actually support election questioners and deniers to have a shot at leading the Republican Party.

A Hindu camp in upstate New York is part of a rich American history of religious groups using summer camps to strengthen the beliefs of young people.

Gingrich’s performance before and the year after his ascent to speaker of the House offers two vital lessons – one salutary, and the other cautionary

Trump resembles the segregationist Alabama governor who ran for president. But at least Wallace turned out to have a conscience

A spate of Trump titles sparks debate about the ethics of withholding vital reporting for books

(RNS) — Dining with Kanye and a Holocaust denier should have been enough. But it was enough years ago.

Across the theological spectrum, clergy are urging Americans to welcome the child migrants arriving from Central America, and many are providing services for them.

The official course looks different from a previous draft: No more critical race theory, and the study of contemporary topics — like Black Lives Matter — is optional.

The series “Granite Flats” on BYUtv is a mix of family drama, police procedural and Cold War suspense yarn.

Those institutions offer even atheists and spiritual seekers a language of moral discourse and training in congregational leadership.

Worshipers at the Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church in Southfield, Mich., have been trying desperately to raise awareness about persecution in their home country.

Vishavjit Singh, one of several hundred thousand American Sikhs, has reclaimed his religion while trying to help others understand it.

At a church in San Francisco that claims John Coltrane as its patron saint, free-jazz solos are featured along with the sermons during Sunday services.

In a 33-year career, Deputy Chief Michael Downing has forged bonds both durable and contentious between the police force and minority groups.

Gardner C. Taylor was part of a politicized generation of African-American churchmen around Martin Luther King, Jr.

Go ahead, ruin Christmas.

Inspired by the memory of her grandmother, Alysia Burton Steele has documented the experiences of 50 African-American women in text and image.

His last Sunday sermon reminds us about the perils of not being woke.

The Argentinean writer Manuel Puig’s novel-in-dialogue forces the reader to be both director and detective, interpreting how the lines will be spoken and searching each sentence for clues as to what...

Former President Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize board on Wednesday for defamation, arguing a statement by the group that concluded a review conducted of previous claims he’d made defamed him. …

Most analyses of recent church-state decisions have gone along the lines of politics or gender, yet it is at least as compelling to consider the Catholic-Jewish divide.

A contest that broke a sports color line in Nashville in 1965 was played without violence breaking out, and is now a landmark in local history.

An exhibition at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee is a story of life and death, and a recollection during the High Holy Days of mortality and persecution.

At the funeral of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, the size of the crowds signaled the depth of the regret about the undoing of the freedoms that his tenure initiated.

Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist working on Kanye West’s 2024 presidential campaign, threw a drink at an In-N-Out Burger in Hollywood, according to video.

In a San Francisco performance, Tierney Sutton combined the Great American Songbook, jazzy religious odes and a series of readings.

One morning in early 1982, I was driving up Route 1 toward Newark Airport, borderline late for my flight. As I wove through morning traffic, calculating how fast I could go without risking a ticket,...