(The Conversation) — “Though politics relies on virtue, this does not make it religious,” writes Anthony D. Baker.

(RNS) — Even heavily Mormon Provo, once reliably red, turned purple.

(RNS) — The message to the powerful is ‘God is on the throne; act like it!’ 

(RNS) — Imagining what Theodore H. White would have made of the making of the president 2020.

(RNS) — Cry the beloved country. No matter who wins.

NEW YORK (RNS) — In Will Arbery’s Pulitzer-nominated play, ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning,’ the only thing worse than our present age being the harbinger of the end of the world is the notion that it doesn’t matter at all.

(RNS) — A proliferation of signs, shirts and stickers advocating ‘Jesus 2020’ has inescapable political implications that merely disavowing politics doesn’t resolve.

(RNS) — In defending his endorsement of Trump, the next leader of the Southern Baptist Convention keeps alive the SBC’s past and future problems with race.

(RNS) — In a pivotal election, Sikhs are making their voices heard in ways that are as true to Sikhi as they are to the best American values.

(RNS) — Many voters are showing that the character of the person at the top of the ticket can matter less than the familiar issues that are driving our political divide.

(RNS) — This election is about our theology and spirituality — not just our politics.

(RNS) — The ‘pro-life’ term was once a moral call to arms, but it has become a mere political checkbox.

(RNS) — The pope’s adoption of civil unions has sharply delineated a momentous shift from the Baptist battles of the last generation.

“I still believe that most Mormon of doctrines for women: that being a mother is my most important role,” writes Mette Harrison. So when LDS policies toward LGBTQ persons seemed to be harming her children, she chose them over the church.

(RNS) — No one thinks that New York’s leaders harbor any antipathy to the Jewish community. What the rules betray is their ignorance of exactly what prayer and religious education mean to Orthodox Jews.