If anything, the dystopia is even scarier in the sequel, which provides terrifying detail on the history of the Christian fundamentalist regime that overthrows the United States at Gilead’s founding.

Maureen Day is an assistant professor of religion and society at the Franciscan School of Theology and the author of Catholic Activism Today: Personal Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice.

In biblical terms, this all-pervasive sickness is a sign of the times.

Mark W. Roche is the Joyce Professor of German and former dean of arts and letters at the University of Notre Dame.

Another look at the story of Mary Magdalene and interpretations of her throughout history.

Walter Scheidel argues in "Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity," that out of the Roman Empire’s ashes rose modernity.