Week of January 2, 2017 Archives

RealClearReligion AM Update

Tuesday, January 3
When You're the Only One Who Shows up to Church
Egan Millard Portland Press Herald
Many Sightings of Hope
Martin E. Marty Sightings
Chicago Priest Puts a "Bounty" on Heads of Killers
Brit McCandless CBS News
"First Things" Editor on Trump and Multi-Cultural Democracy
Emma Green Atlantic
Trump Will Be Prayed Into Office by Mavericks and Mainstreamers
The Economist
Why Democrats Won't Fix Their Religion Problem
David French National Review
Behind the Debate About "Public Theology"
Drew Christiansen America Magazine
Ben Franklin's Calvinist Sister
Thomas S. Kidd The Gospel Coalition
Listen: Paul Harvey on Religion in the American South
Tony Gill Research on Religion
Who Awaits the Messiah Most? Muslims
Jayson Casper Christianity Today
In Year of Anti-Muslim Vitriol, Brands Promote Inclusion
Sapna Maheshwari NYT
A Peculiar Catholic Education Led This Jew to Love Rome
Shannon Levitt Crux


Wednesday, January 4
What We Think Will Be the Major Religion Stories of 2017
Sarah Pulliam Bailey WaPo
Why Christians Are Disproportionately Powerful in Congress
Emma Green Atlantic
Donald Trump's Favorite Televangelist
Mark I. Pinsky Religion News Service
Evangelicals, Israel-Palestine, and the Kingdom of God
Nick Shindo Street R&P
High Noon for the Religious Left
Francis Wilkinson Bloomberg
Marshall McLuhan, Christian Humanism, and Technology
James Poulos Federalist
Mormon Growth Slowing in U.S.
Peggy Fletcher Stack Salt Lake Tribune
The Secret Jewish History of Strange Fruit
Eric Schulmiller Forward
Bach's Holy Dread
Alex Ross The New Yorker
In the Land of Luther, Church Pews Are Mostly Empty
Jean Hopfensperger Star Trib
Fillon Challenges France's Secular Tradition
Stacy Meichtry & Francis X. Rocca WSJ
Can Pope Francis' Legacy Be Rolled Back?
John L. Allen Jr. Crux


Thursday, January 5
The Military's New Religious Accommodation Guidelines
Emma Green The Atlantic
One of the Last Remaining Shakers Dies, Leaving Just Two
David Sharp AP
A Secret Jew, the New World, a Lost Book: Mystery Solved
Joseph Berger NYT
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Pick Chabad Synagogue
Nathan Guttman Forward
Evangelicals and Trump's Attempt to Mainstream Heresy
Michael Horton WaPo
500 Years After Luther, We Still Feel the Pressure to Be Justified
David Zahl CT
The New Face of Mother Emanuel
Darran Simon CNN
Politics, Courts Involved in U.S. Health Care's Diagnosis
Carol Zimmermann Crux
James Joyce and His Jesuits
Ray Cavanaugh America Magazine
The Religious Sources for Modern Human Rights
David E. Anderson R&E NewsWeekly
A Christian Pastor in Turkey's Prisons
Sohrab Ahmari Wall Street Journal
A Diplomat's Collection of Letters Reflects on Moderate Islam
Terry Gross Fresh Air


Friday, January 6
The 'Splainer: What is Epiphany?
Kimberly Winston Deseret News
Nostalgia for White Christian America
Sarah Pulliam Bailey Washington Post
Trump's Spiritual Adviser Fires Back at Critics
Daniel Burke CNN Religion
Morals, Not Politics, Led Mormon Choir Singer to Quit
Peggy Fletcher Stack SLT
The Fight to Save Family-Friendly Movie Filtering
Kate Shellnutt Christianity Today
Faith, Hope, & Clarity: Hollywood and Spiritual Ideas
Tim Gray Variety
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi
Rozina Ali The New Yorker
Who Divided the Bible Into Chapters and Verses?
Mark Woods Christian Today
Is This Toy Figure of Martin Luther Anti-Semitic?
Tom Heneghan Religion News Service
Religion on Display at African American Museum
Judith Weisenfeld Sacred Matters
Desmond Tutu Calls for Right to Assisted Death
Peter Granitz NPR
Pope Francis Could Face Key Choices on Bishops in 2017
John L. Allen Jr. Crux


Saturday, January 7
What the Movie "Silence" Teaches Us About Being Christian
Elizabeth Bruenig WaPo
What's With Pop Culture's Metaphysical Moment?
Spencer Kornhaber The Atlantic
Visiting Disney World Is a Modern Medieval Pilgrimage
Sarah Laskow Atlas Obscura
Pastor Slammed for Carrie Underwood Performance
Holly Meyer USA Today
I Visited The Church Of Scientology. Here's What Happened
Bre Payton Federalist
Few Americans Look to the President or Preachers
Bob Smietana LifeWay
Marchers Carry Crosses Through Chicago for Murder Victims
Michelle Martin CNS
Taking a Knee as Critical Civil Religion
Brian Britt Sightings
Plural Marriage and Mormons From Vantage of Women
M.J. Andersen Boston Globe
How to Love Each Other (and Ourselves) Despite Differences
Jonathan Merritt RNS
Marvin Hier Says He's Proud to Be Trump's Inauguration Rabbi
Gabrielle Birkner JTA
Muslims Wonder Whether Trump's Talk Will Turn Into Action
Sarah Parvini LA Times
Monday, January 9
Kim Burrell Reveals Black Church Split on LGBT Issues
Kate Shellnutt WaPo
There's Nothing Unbiased About Secularism
Jeffrey F. Kirby Crux
The Religious Affiliation of Congress vs. America
David Iaconangelo CSM
Lessons From Huston Smith's Exploration of Religious Experience
Don Lattin RNS
A Man Recently Broke Into My Church. Good on Him, I Say
Giles Fraser The Guardian
9 Things You Should Know About J. R. R. Tolkien
Joe Carter The Gospel Coalition
The Grammar of the Incarnation
Stanley Hauerwas ABC Religion & Ethics
A Syrian Refugee in Toledo Pines for His Family
Ari Shapiro NPR
New Documentary Tells the Story of Jews in the U.S.
Jesse Bernstein Tablet
There Is a New Head of Catholic Relief Services
Kim Lawton Deseret News
Pope Francis, Argentina, and Economics
Tony Gill Research on Religion
Is ISIS Truly Islamic?
Omer Aziz The New Republic


©2019 RealClearReligion | Go to full site