Week of March 27, 2017 Archives

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Monday, March 27
Interview: George Marsden on His New C.S. Lewis Biography
Justin Taylor TGC
A Counter-Narrative of Equality in the Adam and Eve Story
Michel Martin NPR
How Did Celibacy Become Mandatory for Priests?
Kim Haines-Eitzen RealClearReligion
After Great Pain, Where Is God?
Peter Wehner New York Times
Religious Community Helps Combat Opioid Epidemic
Holly Meyer The Tennessean
Faith-Based Rehabilitation: Seeking Redemption Behind Bars
Tanya Erzen LitHub
Can Religious Charities Take the Place of the Welfare State?
Emma Green Atlantic
A Survival Guide for Our "Post-Christian" Nation
Christine Emba Washington Post
Why Religious Freedom Was Important in Gorsuch Hearings
Kelsey Dallas Deseret
"Religious Left" Emerging as US Political Force in Trump Era
Scott Malone Reuters
Why Abortion Doesn't Resonate in European Politics
Francis X. Rocca WSJ
Vicar of Baghdad: Christianity in Iraq Is Finished
Hollie McKay FOX News


Tuesday, March 28
This Unpaid Pensions Case Could Crush Christian Hospitals
Kate Shellnutt CT
Wonderfully Made: Churches Seize on Gallery Spaces
G. Jeffrey MacDonald Deseret
Feeling the Unexpected Call to Become a Priest
Ellen McCarthy Washington Post
Will the Mormon Word of Wisdom Ever Change?
Peggy Fletcher Stack Salt Lake Tribune
Looking at the Definition of "Evangelical" With Mark Noll
Terry Mattingly GetReligion
Dreary Day at Princeton With No Prize for Tim Keller
Tony Carnes AJT NYC Religions
Religiosity Playing an Expected Role in Views of Trump
Frank Newport Gallup
Vatican's Top African Challenges Trump to Think Globally
John L. Allen Jr. Crux
Lutheran Refugee Agency Is "Cautiously Hopeful"
Emily McFarlan Miller RNS
For Some, Passover Seder Will Address Global Refugee Crisis
Leanne Italie AP
Highlighting the Odd Symbiosis Between Monotheistic Faiths
The Economist
The Jihadi Who Turned to Jesus
Patrick Kingsley New York Times


Wednesday, March 29
These Presbyterians Want Their Church Back
Lisa Wangsness Boston Globe
New Mag Provides a Platform for Christians of Color
Anita Little Religion Dispatches
How Mormon Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive
Megan McArdle Bloomberg View
Hamtramck: An Evolving City of Immigrants
Melissa Block & Elissa Nadworny NPR
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on Clearing Scriptural Minefields
Yonat Shimron RNS
The Atheists Struggling to Find Therapists in the Bible Belt
Angela Almeida Atlantic
Is a Secular America a Worse America?
Connor Wood Patheos
How Christians Can Participate in American Public Life
Greg Forster TGC
Supreme Court Case Asks: What Counts as a Church?
Kelsey Dallas Deseret News
The Clash Between Religious Freedom and Equality Law
Stephanie Russell-Kraft R&P
Not Wishy-Washy
Martin E. Marty Sightings
Pope Francis Proposes a Cure for Populism
James Carroll The New Yorker


Thursday, March 30
Does Believing in God Make You a Better American?
Kelsey Dallas Deseret News
Articulating Moral Consensus in a Pluralistic Country
John G. Stackhouse Jr. CT
American Stoicism and the Benedict Option
Peter Augustine Lawler National Review
What Christians Mean By "Truth" Helps to Understand Trump
Anna Mansfield WaPo
"Post-Truth" and Catholic Church History
Massimo Faggioli Commonweal
Turks, Cannibals, Catholics
Peter J. Leithart First Things
How Evangelicals Entered American Politics
Alan Wolfe New York Times
Scopes Trial and the Political Temptation of Fundamentalists
Thomas S. Kidd TGC
"Mexit" for United Methodist Theological Dissenters?
Mark Tooley Juicy Ecumenism
At US Capitol, Christians Protest Budget Cuts
Lauren Markoe Religion News Service
Atheists and Highly Religious Are Least Scared of Death
Mike McRae ScienceAlert
Selling Judaism, Religion Not Included
Jennifer Miller Bloomberg Businessweek


Friday, March 31
Mike Pence's Marriage and the "Billy Graham Rule"
Emma Green The Atlantic
Abraham Kuyper: After a Century, in the News Again
Richard Mouw RNS
Franklin Graham's "Samaritan's Purse" Releases Documentary
Emily Miller Deseret
How 1,000 Pastors Pursue Racial Reconciliation
Bob Smietana Christianity Today
Understanding Protestant Religious Identity in America
Zach Parris Sightings
How Martin Luther Helped Invent Individual Freedom
Frank Furedi TIME
"Confessionalization" and the Reformation
Peter J. Leithart First Things
Rod Dreher on Common Ground and the "Benedict Option"
Bill McCormick America
Catholics Critical of Trump's Clean Power Plan
Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
A Planet of Their Own? Mormons' Spaceship Comes In on TV
Scott Pierce SL Trib.
The High Price of Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Life
Taffy Brodesser-Akner NYT Magazine
For Iraqi Christians, the Road to Reconstruction Is Long
The Economist
Saturday, April 1
Why a Methodist Chaplain Is Hiking the Appalachian Trail
Holly Meyer Tennessean
Where Did the Billy Graham Rule Come From?
Justin Taylor The Gospel Coalition
Evangelical Leaders Really Don't Want to Endorse Politicians
David Gibson RNS
How Taxes Can Go to Religious Education
Chelsea Schneider & Stephanie Wang IndyStar
What Feminism Owes to the Reformation
Rachel Marie Stone Christianity Today
Going Benedict, Orthodox Jewish Style
Bethany Mandel First Things
Sanctuary Churches: Who Controls the Story?
Adrian Florido NPR
Still No Leader for the White House Faith Partnership Office
Adelle Banks Deseret
The Strange Persistence of Guilt
David Brooks New York Times
An Interfaith Community Responds to an Attack With Art
Wyatt Massey U.S. Catholic
Clergy Who Don't Believe in Organized Religion?
Julie Zauzmer Washington Post
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
Ian Johnson Wall Street Journal
Monday, April 3
Niebuhr and the Situation
Martin E. Marty Sightings
Reza Aslan's "Believer" – Education or Entertainment?
Eloise Blondiau America
Apartment Plan Pits Church Against Its Neighbors
Nancy Sarnoff Houston Chronicle
Evangelicals Are Falling in Love With Passover
Sam Kestenbaum Forward
The Other Billy Graham Rules
Bob Smietana Christianity Today
The Problem With "Don't Eat Alone With Women"
Karen Swallow Prior Vox
A Closer Look at "The Benedict Option"
Jacob Lupfer Religion News Service
Is Neil Gorsuch an Abortion Foe's Dream – or Nightmare?
David Gibson Crux
Mormon Leaders Encourage More Baptisms for the Dead
Brady McCombs AP
Why Are ISIS Victims Still Waiting for Aid?
Carl Anderson Washington Post
Why Do Political Leaders Repress Religious Groups?
Tony Gill Research on Religion
Resilience to Shock Is the Best Hope for Birmingham's Multiple Faiths
Economist


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