Week of April 3, 2017 Archives

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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


Tuesday, April 4
Questioning the Gods: How TV's Tackling Belief and Religion
Alicia Lutes Nerdist
On the Life and Death of Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Vladislav Davidzon Tablet
The Jewish Food Society Wants to Save Grandma's Recipes
Larissa Zimberoff NPR
This Novel Fleshes Out St. Augustine's Love Life
Kristin Grady Gilger America
Will the Church Value Video Games in 2017?
Steven Miller Christ & Pop Culture
For Black Mormons, DNA Testing a Revelation of Roots
Bob Mims Salt Lake Tribune
Here's Where Major Religions Actually Stand on Vaccines
Antonia Blumberg HuffPo
Protestantism After 500 Years
Todd M. Johnson Christianity Today
Disenchanting Protestantism?
Peter J. Leithart First Things
Dreher, Mohler, and St. Benedict in Conversation
Terry Mattingly On Religion
Conference on Deposing a Heretical Pope Looks to the Past
Tom Heneghan RNS
At USC, a Hindu Chaplain Leads the Way
Rosanna Xia Los Angeles Times


Wednesday, April 5
Pope Francis Writes a Letter to Chicago
Julie Zauzmer Washington Post
Q&A: Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
Kelsey Dallas Deseret
New Books Explore How Protestants Changed the World
Lily Rothman TIME
Thomas More: The Ferocious Foe of Protestantism
Jack Scarisbrick Catholic Herald
How an Evangelical Learned to Love the Saints
K. Albert Little Patheos
African American Christians and Fundamentalism
Thomas Kidd The Gospel Coalition
"The Benedict Option" Is a Sunny Prediction of Doom
Joy Pullmann The Federalist
Franklin Graham's Global Fallout
Ken Shigematsu Christianity Today
Meet the Jewish Corn Farmers of Iowa
Steven Gordon Forward
Emily Esfahani Smith on Pursuing a Meaningful Life
Eric Miller Religion & Politics
Russia Moves to Ban Jehovah's Witnesses as "Extremist"
Andrew Higgins NY Times
Dalai Lama's Emotional Reunion With Guard Who Aided Him
Michael Safi Guardian


Thursday, April 6
How Christianity Shaped Experiences of World War I
Jonathan Ebel RealClearReligion
Why James Comey Might Call Himself Niebuhr on Twitter
Paul Elie The New Yorker
Ghosts and Shells: Is Transhumanism Cartesian?
Steven D. Greydanus NC Register
BYU Scientists Question Book of Mormon Research
Benjamin Wood Salt Lake Tribune
Business Startups: What Would Jesus Disrupt?
Mya Frazier Bloomberg Businessweek
Fellowship Seeks to Dismantle "Second Prison" Beyond Bars
Christianity Today
Christian Rock Star Releases First Music Video Since Coming Out
Emily Miller RNS
Reading Evangelical History With One Eye Closed
Randall Balmer Christian Century
On Ecumenoclasm: Salvation for Non-Christians?
Paul Ladouceur Public Orthodoxy
Shabbat Hagadol in More Than One Way
Shia Altman Times of Israel
"The Islamic Jesus" Seeks Commonalities
David Holahan Christian Science Monitor
4 Charts That Explain the Future of the World's Faiths
Kelsey Dallas Deseret News


Friday, April 7
Why the "Faith-Based" Film Genre Must End
Mark Joseph Relevant
Jazz History and Duke Ellington's Faith
Ted Gioia First Things
Faith Helped Baseball Coach Tony Beasley Beat Cancer
Bobby Ross Jr. Deseret
Are the New Traditional Churches Artificial?
Dwight Longenecker Crux
Making Faith-Based Institutions Inclusive
Michael A. Helfand Inside HIgher Ed
"Protestants" Looks at Beliefs That Reshaped the World
David Walton Dallas News
The Spiritual Agony Behind America's Opioid Crisis
Damon Linker The Week
Mainstream Media and Moderate, Orthodox Christians
John Stackhouse Sightings
When Character No Longer Counts
Alan Jacobs National Affairs
Jesus Didn't Eat a Seder Meal
Yehiel Poupko & David Sandme Christianity Today
On Passover, Fearing the Four Questions
Lauren Markoe Religion News Service
Christian and Muslim Populations Will Be Nearly Equal by 2060
Ian Lovett WSJ
Saturday, April 8
Churches Struggling to Find Organists
Jonathan M. Pitts Baltimore Sun
Pete Holmes: Believing in God Gave Me Hope as Comic
Kate Shellnutt CT
Finding Faith on the Farm
Jeff Chu Modern Farmer
FOX Reality TV Show to Revive RFRA Clash
Stephanie Wang Indianapolis Star
A Preview of the Soon-to-Open Museum of the Bible
Leah Jessen LifeZette
An Anti-Catholic Pol's 21st-Century Legacy
Michael A. Helfand Wall Street Journal
New Data Suggest Clinton Won Catholic Vote
Michael O'Loughlin America
Vatican and US Church Officials Back New Gay-Friendly Book
David Gibson RNS
Palm Sunday: Jesus Rides Into the Perfect Storm
N.T. Wright ABC Religion & Ethics
Passover and the Jewish Art of Questioning Everything
Jonathan Leener Forward
Ask a Muslim: What of Neanderthals and Aliens?
Haroon Moghul Religion Dispatches
The World's First Christian Country?
Amanda Proenca Santos & Rodolfo Contreras BBC
Monday, April 10
For Coptic Christians, Another in a Long String of Attacks
Alan Gomez USA Today
What Happened to the Jerusalem Temple's Menorah?
Candida Moss The Daily Beast
The Growing Interest in "Christianese"
Patrick Cox Public Radio International
A Closer Look at Christians Who Don't Go to Church
Kate Shellnutt Christianity Today
Author Anne Lamott: "Mercy Is Our Only Hope"
Emily McFarlan Miller RNS
How to Avoid Anti-Judaism This Easter
Amy-Jill Levine ABC Religion & Ethics
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Passover
The Editors Tablet
A Lost American Religion
Fergus M. Bordewich Wall Street Journal
Do the Culture Wars Really Represent America?
Emma Green The Atlantic
Charles Chaput: A Bishop of Consequence
George Weigel First Things
Catholics Surge in Africa, But Priest Shortages Persist
Josephine McKenna Crux
The Religious Response to Syria's Travails Is Prolix and Confused
The Economist


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