Among U.S. adults under 35, about 40 percent have tattoos. And getting inked has more parallels to traditional religious practice than you might think.

I am generally a joyful person, a loving person, a forgiving person, but right now I am struggling to be any of those things.

How can we be grateful in a world filled with inequality?

I never thought choking another human could feel so akin to prayer, but here we are.

If the world is going to wait for all of us to become perfect before we can find solutions to social evils, the world will have to wait for a long time.

You might know Ross Douthat as the token conservative at The New York Times, or the Catholic critic of Pope Francis. But in his new book, The Deep Places, you’ll see a different side of the author.