Week of April 24, 2017 Archives

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Monday, April 24
Four Nuns Have Formed a Band Called Force of Habit
Sarah Larimer Washington Post
Monks Saved Their Abbey by Protecting the Earth
Debra Bruno National Geographic
Faith Lifts Small Town From Depths of HIV Plague
Laura Ungar Courier-Journal
Reclaiming "Jew"
Mark Oppenheimer New York Times
Matzo and Oreos: Keeping Kosher in America
Matthew Wills JSTOR Daily
Will Blaine's Descendants Finally Be Disinherited?
Mark David Hall Lib. of Law & Liberty
Yuval Noah Harari's Dystopia
Rod Dreher The American Conservative
MacIntyre Against Morality
John Haldane First Things
A Gay, Conservative Christian Might Be NATO Ambassador
Jonathan Merritt Atlantic
The Responses of Christians to Religious Persecution
Mark Zimmermann Crux
America Is Abandoning Independent Christians in China
Chloe Starr RNS
The Crusaders Who Missed the Holy Land
Luke T. Harrington Christ & Pop Culture


Tuesday, April 25
A Popular Public School Bible Class Faces Legal Challenge
Joe Heim WaPo
Rod Dreher's Monastic Vision
Joshua Rothman New Yorker
Religio-Secular... Again
Martin E. Marty Sightings
The Politics of Apocalypse
Robert Joustra & Alissa Wilkinson Convivium
Most Scientists Aren't Anti-Religion
Elaine Howard Ecklund Christianity Today
Chicago Hospital Chaplain Guides Spiritual Crises
David Paulsen Episcopal News Svc.
Organ Donation Taught Me Death Is Not the Last Word
Eric Gregory America
A Baptism, Then a Murder Confession
Bobby Ross Jr. Christian Chronicle
The Church's Surprising Public Contribution
David Gushee Religion News Service
Rapper Kendrick Lamar's Hebrew Israelite Connection
Sam Kestenbaum Forward
Who Does the Anne Frank Center Represent?
Emma Green The Atlantic
Why Do Hindus Believe Cows Are Sacred?
Richard Ostling Patheos


Wednesday, April 26
Pope Francis Gives a Surprise TED Talk
Colby Itkowitz Washington Post
Forget Netflix and Chill. Try Pure Flix and Pray.
Katherine Rosman New York Times
Americans Are Fond of the Bible, Don't Actually Read it
Bob Smietana LifeWay
Templeton Prize Winner Proved God's Not Dead in Academia
Kate Shellnutt CT
Catholic Scientists Bring Faith and Science Together
John Farrell Forbes
Does Religion Kill Democracy?
Steven Pittz Library of Law & Liberty
A Court-Martial for a Bible Verse
S. Simcha Goldman Wall Street Journal
United Methodists to Hold Special Session on LGBT Inclusion
Emily Miller Deseret
Reinhold Niebuhr, Washington's Favorite Theologian
Gene Zubovich Religion & Politics
Rev. William Barber: The Face of Progressive Christianity
Tommy Tomlinson Esquire
Wearing a Hijab, a Young Muslim Boxer Enters the Ring
Laurel Wamsley NPR
Stunning Religious Peacemaking at the Tribeca Film Festival
Jonathan Merritt RNS


Thursday, April 27
Does Education Put Faith at Risk? Not for Christians
Emily McFarlan Miller RNS
For Many Christians, Wednesday Is the New Sunday
Jean Hopfensperger Star Tribune
The "Benedict Option" Is Not Enough
Charles C. Camosy Crux
America's Complicated Religious Landscape
Facts & Trends
Montana County Became a Stage for the Refugee Debate
Jaweed Kaleem LA Times
For Sikhism Facts, Students Become the Teachers
Julie Zauzmer Washington Post
Buddhist Chaplain Helps Jail Staff at Rikers Island
Corinne Ramey Wall Street Journal
Bill Nye Can't Save the World All by Himself
Eric Sundrup America
Trump Continues Obamacare Contraceptive Fight
Kate Shellnutt Christianity Today
The Pope's Perilous Mission to Egypt
Daniel Burke CNN
In China, Unregistered Churches Are Driving a Revolution
Ian Johnson The Atlantic
Russia Ranked Among the Worst Religious Freedom Violators
Kelsey Dallas Deseret


Friday, April 28
Is the Death Penalty Anti-Christian?
Mathew Schmalz RealClearReligion
Why Educated Christians Are Sticking With Church
Emma Green The Atlantic
What Does It Mean to Be Evangelical?
Heather Hahn United Methodist News Service
Who's In Charge of the Christian Blogosphere?
Tish Harrison Warren Christianity Today
How Trump Changes Conservative Christian Politics
Holly Meyer Tennessean
Judgment Day? Trump and Religion at the 100-Day Mark
Kimberly Winston RNS
How Eisenhower's First 100 Days Created the Religious Right
Kevin Kruse Esquire
Misunderstanding Taiwan Christians and Gay Marriage
Mark Tooley Christian Post
Why This Rabbi Marched for Science
Geoffrey Mitelman Sinai and Synapses
Expelled for Performing an Interfaith Wedding
Seymour Rosenbloom Washington Post
Pope Francis on Friday Begins Brief but Dicey Trip to Egypt
John L. Allen Jr. Crux
How North Korea's Politics Became a De-Facto Religion
Antonia Blumberg HuffPost
Saturday, April 29
Why Religion Has Been Durable In Modern Society
Tom Gjelten NPR
The Trendy Way Faith Leaders Are Saving the Homeless
Kelsey Dallas Deseret News
Bill McKibben Talks Faith and the Climate March
Lauren Markoe Salt Lake Tribune
Reading and Tweeting Augustine
Carol Zaleski Christian Century
Methodists Reject First Openly Gay Bishop's Consecration
Laurie Goodstein NYT
Mainline Protestantism Could Have Just 23 Easters Left
Ed Stetzer Washington Post
When Belief Dies, Can It Be Resurrected?
Tom Krattenmaker Religion News Service
Raise a Juice Box to the Temperance Movement
Jennifer Tait Christianity Today
Six Christianity and Culture Strategies
Jake Meador Mere Orthodoxy
Rod Dreher on Christians and the "Benedict Option"
Michael Duggan Catholic Herald
A Week With the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu
John Malkin Tricycle
Two Key Takeaways From the Pope's TED Talk
Massimo Faggioli RealClearReligion
Monday, May 1
The Complicated Tale of Religion in Early American Life
Kelsey Dallas Deseret News
Guide to the Classics: Neil Gaiman's American Gods
Elizabeth Hale RealClearReligion
What Is a "Religion"? Uncle Sam Struggles to Answer
Richard Ostling GetReligion
Tiny Bibles Flown to the Moon Now the Subject of Dispute
Jay Gotera Christian Post
Black Female Episcopal Bishop Breaks Stained Glass Ceiling
Robert King Indy Star
Readers React: Dispute Over Gay Clergy
Laurie Goodstein New York Times
Prayer Cards and Holy Dirt: The Robert Orsi Approach
James McCartin Commonweal
Meet the Muslim Comedian Who Roasted Trump
Kate Shellnutt Washington Post
Why American Sikhs Think They Need a Publicity Campaign
Akinyi Ochieng NPR
Coloring in the Troubled History of a Roman Arch
Josephine McKenna RNS
Martin Luther: Hero, But No Saint
George T. Deas America
Pope's Trip to Egypt May Be One of Those "Big Deal" Moments
John Allen Jr. Crux


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