Week of August 8, 2016 Archives

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Monday, August 8
Which Religion Has the Most Olympic Medals?
Religion News Service
How the Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music
Alana Massey RD
Confessions of a Guitar-Mass Catholic
Lisa Middendorf Woodall America
Why Cutting the Cake Makes a Wedding Legit
Kelsey Dallas Deseret News
The Amish PAC Intent on Electing Trump
Brandon Ambrosino Yahoo
The Holocaust Historian Who Loves Trump
Mark Oppenheimer TDB
Hillary Clinton's Moral Conflicts on Abortion
Myriam Renaud Atlantic
The Pivotal Role of Faith Leaders in Avoiding Violence
The Economist
Controversial Film on Islam's Origins Is Now Classic
R. H. Greene NPR
On Islam and Violence, Pope + Patriarch = Full Story
John L. Allen Crux
The Meaning of a Martyrdom
Ross Douthat The New York Times
Video: Mother Teresa and Sainthood
Deborah Potter R&E NewsWeekly


Tuesday, August 9
The Altar of Sport: The Olympics as a Kind of Religion
The Economist
Pope Praises Witness of Refugee Olympic Team
Cindy Wooden America
Education's History-Less Loss of Perspective
Martin E. Marty Sightings
Investigating Evidence That Jesus Had a Wife
Joaquin Sapien ProPublica
The Long History of "Christian Libertarianism"
Emma Green Atlantic
The Controversial Noah's Ark Park
Lucky Severson R&E NewsWeekly
Will the Amish Turn Out for Trump?
Kyle C. Kopko RealClearReligion
Pew: More Sermons Endorse Clinton
Kate Shellnutt Christianity Today
CA Bill Threatens Religious Freedom
Charles Blake & Jose Gomez Crux
A Biden-Officiated Wedding and Catholic Bishops
Jim Davis GetReligion
New LDS Temple Offers Glimpse Into a Secret Shrine
Julie Zauzmer WP
When a Former Synagogue Becomes a House
Noah Lederman Tablet


Wednesday, August 10
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


Thursday, August 11
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


Friday, August 12
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
Saturday, August 13
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
Monday, August 15
What's Lost and Gained in a Flood
Rod Dreher American Conservative
Wheaton Professor on Religion and Disasters
Tony Gill RoR
Largest For-Profit Christian College to Open Seminary
Paul Glader CT
Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?
David Krueger RD
What Campaign Music Tells Us About Spirituality
Tripp Hudgins RNS
Trump, Race, and Jewish Republicans
Lee Smith Tablet Magazine
The Two Fears Muslims Face After NY Imam's Killing
Khalid Latif CNN
The Delicate Dance of Politics in the Pulpit
Edward L. Beck Crux
These Catholic Schools Boast Nine Rio Olympians
Maggie Maslak CNA
The Case for Mother Teresa's Sainthood
Laurie Goodstein NYT
The Poetry of Italian Church Confessionals
Jordan G. Teicher Slate
Tibetan Buddhism's Minnesota Lama
Fred de Sam Lazaro PBS R&E


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