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Tara Isabella Burton is the author of Social Creature: A Novel (Doubleday, 2018) and Strange Rites: Cults and Subcultures After the Death of God (Public Affairs, 2019). She holds a doctorate in Theology from the University of Oxford.

US bishops had a plan to combat clerical sex abuse. The Vatican just hit pause.

By Tara Isabella Burton

Tlaib and Omar are the first Muslim women elected to Congress. They’re also so much more.

By Tara Isabella Burton

The GOP can’t rely on white evangelicals forever

By Tara Isabella Burton

Jeff Sessions helped create Trump’s brand of evangelical patriotism. It will outlast him.

By Tara Isabella Burton

Why (white) evangelicals still support Trump

By Tara Isabella Burton

Why this shrinking religious group might be among America’s last “swing voters”

By Tara Isabella Burton

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette honors the Tree of Life fallen with a traditional Jewish prayer

By Tara Isabella Burton

The centuries-old history of Jewish “puppet master” conspiracy theories

By Tara Isabella Burton

Messianic Jews and Jews for Jesus, explained

By Tara Isabella Burton

The Bible says to welcome immigrants. So why don’t white evangelicals?

By Tara Isabella Burton