Real Clear Religion Weekend

Celebs Want a Purpose-Driven Life - Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today
When the Olympics Tried to Exclude African Faiths - Janet Coelho, RNS
Religious Exemptions From Child Abuse - Aleksandra Sandstrom, Pew
Teaching the Bible? Translation Matters - Aviya Kushner, Forward
When the US Tried to Ban Mormon Immigrants - Peggy Stack, SLT
Vacation Bible School for Senior Citizens - Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post
ELCA Ratifies Catholic Interfaith Document - Michael O'Loughlin, America
Benedict Option vs. Marian Option - Carrie Gress, National Catholic Register
Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Lourdes - Josephine McKenna, RNS
Restoring Old Churches in Russia - Alison Smale, The New York Times
The Muslim Saving Christians in the Middle East - Billy Hallowell, Deseret
The Secret Sex Life of Ultra-Orthodox Jews - Yuval Avivi, Al-Monitor

Real Clear Religion Friday

Morning Update
Does Faith Give Olympic Athletes an Edge? - Kimberly Winston, RNS
Olympians in Hijab and Bikini - Roger Cohen, The New York Times
The Prominent Bible Verse at the Olympics - Billy Hallowell, Deseret News
Listen: Olympics and "I Want to Thank Jesus" Talk - Terry Mattingly, GR
Six Questions on Religious Minorities for Election 2016 - Christian Post
Trump Plays Up His Problem Among Mormons - Peter Weber, The Week
Evangelicals Form New Group Within UMC - Andy Walton, Christian Today
The IRS and Politics From the Pulpit - Editors, National Catholic Register
The Washington Post and the Church of Me - George Weigel, First Things
Payday Loan Reform Is a Christian Duty - Catherine Parks, CT
Faith, Reason, and the Law - James Bruce, Library of Law & Liberty
Evolution and the "Scopes Monkey Trial" Home Today - Travis Loller, AP

Real Clear Religion Thursday

Morning Update
The US Report on Global Religious Freedom - Matthew Lee, Deseret News
CA Religious University Proposal Dropped - Patrick McGreevy, LAT
Clinton Makes Unprecedented Appeal to Mormons - Robert Gehrke, SLT
Trump's Mormon Problem - Neil J. Young, Religion Dispatches
Should Evangelicals Apologize to Bill Clinton? - Jonathan Merritt, Atlantic
Are Young Evangelicals More Liberal Than Parents? - Ed Stetzer, CT
A Stout Theology Is Not Saving Evangelicals - Tom Krattenmaker, RNS
Race and the Controversial Article We Removed - The Gospel Coalition
Fox's Ominous Report on Targeting Churches - Jim Davis, GetReligion
Catholics, Abortion, and Voting - Kathryn Lopez & Charles Camosy, Crux
Women Deacons: What Happens Next? - Phyllis Zagano, NCR
Regulating the Language of Religious Rites - Jennifer S. Bryson, AOTU

Real Clear Religion Wednesday

Morning Update
The Many Meanings of Rio's Christ Statue - Michelle Boorstein, WaPo
A Hijab-Wearing Olympian Is Good for the Jews - Jordie Gerson, Forward
LGBT Groups Call for Big 12 to Shun BYU - Jay Drew, Salt Lake Tribune
Coach Files Lawsuit Over Postgame Prayer - Ben Rohrbach, USA Today
Conservative Evangelicals Cancel Moscow Conference - The Economist
Lady Antebellum Singer on New Faith Album - Elisa Cipollone, LifeZette
Pence: Christians, Jews Part of Trump's Ban - Andrew Kaczynski, BuzzFeed
Trump and the Passing of White Christian America - Robert P. Jones, NYT
Justice Two Years After Ferguson - Elizabeth Palmer, The Christian Century
"Harry Potter" and Working for Justice - Layton Williams, Sojourners
Hollywood's Got a "Religion Problem" - Steven D. Greydanus, Crux
Islam in Western Cinema, Part 1 - Omer M. Mozaffar, RogerEbert.com

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