Week of December 12, 2016 Archives

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Monday, December 12
Egypt Mourns 25 Christians Killed in Massive Church Bombing
Maggie Michael AP
In the Wake of Terror in Cairo
Bishop Anba Suriel ABC Religion & Ethics
Religious Freedom Empowers Women
Kristina Arriaga & John Ruskay RNS
Catholic Church Not a Force for Good? "I Refute It Thus"!
John L. Allen Jr. Crux
Vatican: Priests Should Learn About Climate Change
Cindy Wooden Catholic Herald
Mormon Gift Offers African-American Genealogical Treasures
Mike Gorrell SLT
Here Are Donald Trump's Campaign Promises on Religion
Sarah Pulliam Bailey WaPo
Should Anti-Trump Evangelicals Leave the Movement?
Jonathan Merritt The Atlantic
Religious Right Reinvigorated by Donald Trump
Ian Lovett Wall Street Journal
Hispanic Evangelicals and Politics Today
Ed Stetzer Christianity Today
Advent and the Winter of Our Disenchantment
Cheryl Bridges Johns Seedbed
Methodist Church Eases Post-Election Muslim Fears
Manya Brachear Chicago Tribune


Tuesday, December 13
Religion Reading List: Holiday Edition
Kimberly Winston Religion News Service
This Case Could Bankrupt Religious Schools and Hospitals
Emma Green Atlantic
How Bad Journalism Is Hurting People of Faith
Eloise Blondiau America Magazine
The Religiocification of Hate
Martin E. Marty Sightings
Doctrine Really Does Matter, in Terms of Church Growth
Terry Mattingly On Religion
Augustinian Optimism and Modern Science
Peter J. Leithart First Things
Trump's Sharp Contrast From Obama and Bush on Islam
William McCants WaPo
Khizr Khan Targets the "Politics of Fear"
Jaweed Kaleem Los Angeles Times
Assaults on Muslim Women Force Some to Rethink the Hijab
Yonat Shimron RNS
The Demoralization of the West
Rod Dreher The American Conservative
The Troubled Lives of Egypt's Coptic Christians
The Economist
Does Christianity Have a Future in the Middle East?
Samuel Tadros ABC R&E


Wednesday, December 14
Study: The U.S. Attracts an Elite Muslim and Hindu Population
Tom Gjelten NPR
Most Churches Open for Business on Christmas, New Year's
Bob Smietana LifeWay
A Bible Translation for Everyone?
John Fea Christian Century
The 10 Best Jewish-Themed Movies of 2016
J. Hoberman Tablet Magazine
Trump Advisers: The Faith Factor
Emily McFarlan Miller & Kimberly Winston RNS
Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State Upsets Tony Perkins
David Gibson WaPo
Trump's Outreach to Evangelicals Didn't End With the Election
Kelsey Dallas Deseret
Ohio's New Abortion Bill Is a Sign of Battles to Come
Emma Green The Atlantic
"Tenderness Leads to the Gas Chamber"
Rod Dreher The American Conservative
Baby Jesus or Santa: Who Delivers Christmas Presents?
Ana Campoy Quartz
Russian Communist Party Turns to Orthodox Church
Mansur Mirovalev Al Jazeera
Time for a Tipping Point on Anti-Christian Persecution
John L. Allen Jr. Crux


Thursday, December 15
Welcome to RealClearReligion's New Site
Jeremy Fuzy RealClearReligion
How 2016's Movies and TV Reflected American Religion
Alissa Wilkinson Vox
PW's 10 Most-Read Religion Stories of 2016
Publishers Weekly
The Top Books Shaping Evangelical Life, Thought, and Culture
Christianity Today
LDS Church Yanks Song That Falls Flat With Mormons of Color
Peggy Stack SLT
Plat of Zion: The Urban Grid of Salt Lake City
Sam Greenspan 99% Invisible
If You Don't "Get" Religion, You Can't "Get" America
David French National Review
Trump Is Paving the Way for a Revival of the "Religious Left"
Jack Jenkins WaPo
Jewish Debate in Trump's America
Moshe Kornfeld Religion & Politics
A Brief History of Anti-Jewish Attacks in America
Armin Rosen Tablet Magazine
Opening a Mosque's Doors to the Neighborhood
Ryan Schuessler PRI
Suds and Solidarity: Benedictine Beer Helps Rebuild Basilica
Cindy Wooden Crux
Pope Faces Conservative Backlash Over the Divorced and Remarried
Economist


Friday, December 16
"Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" to End After 20-Year Run
Adelle M. Banks RNS
Evangelicals Question Overlooking the Rural Church
Sarah Pulliam Bailey WaPo
Will the Force Be Strong With Rogue One?
Jeffrey Overstreet Christianity Today
Here's the History Behind the X in Xmas
Brandon Ambrosino Vox
History of Christmas Still Celebrated at California Missions
Jay Jones Chicago Trib
The Little-Known Story of the Islamic Christmas Tree
Mariam Sheikh Hakim HuffPost
Why Does the Bible List Two Family Trees for Jesus?
Richard Ostling Patheos
The Incarnation and Early Christian Philanthropy
Gary Ferngren ABC Religion & Ethics
Sincerity or Ritual
Peter J. Leithart First Things
Stumbling Toward a Compromise
Nathaniel Peters Library of Law & Liberty
Powerful Roman Catholic Group Opus Dei Faces Transition
Tom Gjelten NPR
Here's How to Wish Pope Francis a Happy Birthday
Michael O'Loughlin America
Saturday, December 17
If We Made Alien Contact, How Would Religions React?
Brandon Ambrosino BBC
A Depressing Year of Religion News
Jerome Socolovsky Religion News Service
NYT Editor Says "We Don't Get Religion" ...Now What?
Terry Mattingly GetReligion
Krista Tippett Thinks We Can't Change One Another's Minds
Ana Marie Cox NYT
The Charleston Story: Knotted Mix Of Race, Grace, and Injustice
Gene Demby NPR
This Book Designer Just Redesigned the Bible as a Novel
Carol Kuruvilla HuffPost
Study: Catholics Love Their Work More Than Evangelicals
Shannon Levitt Crux
Liberty University to Open On-Campus Shooting Range
T. Rees Shapiro WaPo
Why Hillary Clinton Bombed With White Evangelical Voters
Ruth Graham Slate
Is There a "War" on Christmas?
Russell Moore Signposts
Magi, Wise Men, or Kings? It's Complicated.
Chad Ashby Christianity Today
Many People Overestimate How Many Muslims There Are
Jesse Singal NY Mag
Monday, December 19
Website Plans to Showcase Leaked Mormon Documents
Peggy Fletcher Stack SLT
Al Mohler on Defining "Truth" in This Media Age
Terry Mattingly GetReligion
Congregants' Quiet Agony at the Dylann Roof Trial
Kevin Sack New York Times
Maryland Church Ordered to Evict Homeless or Pay Fine
Brandon Ambrosino Yahoo!
Obama Approves Expansion of Religious Freedom Act
Tom Strode Christianity Today
The US Has Already Tried Registering Muslims. It Didn't Work.
Angilee Shah PRI
Why Conservative Churches Grow and Liberal Churches Shrink
David Haskell DMN
Looking Back at 2016: The Catholic Church in the US
Ines San Martin Crux
Christian Politicians Shape Europe's Least Religious Countries
Rick Noack WaPo
Church, State Seeing Eye to Eye in Putin's Orthodox Russia
Nataliya Vasilyeva ABC
The Actual War on Christians
Samuel Tadros The Atlantic
Hanukkah: The Festival of Religious Freedom
Jonathan Sacks ABC Religion & Ethics


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