Week of May 15, 2017 Archives

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Monday, May 15
Churches Get Creative With Horse Trough Baptisms
Katherine Burgess Wichita Eagle
Of Gods and Games: Religion and Sports
Paul Putz Religion in American History
Taking the Unitarian Universalist Diversity Crisis Seriously
Martin E. Marty Sightings
Anglicans, Lutherans, and African Churches
Tony Gill Research on Religion
Christian History: How David Barton Is Doing It Wrong
The Gospel Coalition
James Comey: The Fall of a Niebuhrian
K. Healan Gaston Religion News Service
The Ins and Outs of New York's Eruv
Allan Ripp Wall Street Journal
Do Muslims Have to Be Democrats Now?
Wajahat Ali New York Times
At Liberty, Trump Praises Putting "Faith Into Action"
Sarah McCammon NPR
Adopting International Religious Freedom With Teeth
Tina Ramirez National Review
Blasphemy Conviction Threatens Muslim Democracy
Paul Marshall Christianity Today
Across Ex-Communist Europe, Religion Is Robust and Patriotic
The Economist


Tuesday, May 16
Remembering Luther's Contribution to Literacy
Richard Gunderman RealClearReligion
Record Few Americans Believe Bible Is Literal Word of God
Lydia Saad Gallup
Women Bloggers Spawn an Evangelical "Crisis of Authority"
Emily Miller RNS
The Rise of the Professional Wedding Celebrant
Carlos Wilton Religion Dispatches
Religion and Mental Illness: A Complex Relationship
Katherine Burgess Wichita Eagle
Elie Wiesel's Only Son Steps Up to His Father's Legacy
Rick Lyman New York Times
Indian Americans Reckon With Reality of Hate Crimes
Arun Venugopal NPR
Why Standing Rock Is About Much More Than Oil
Peter Campbell The Guardian
Polygamists Leave Their Home on the Utah-Arizona Line
Nate Carlisle SL Tribune
Trump, the Vatican, and US Catholics
Massimo Faggioli La Croix
Evangelicals Help "Destroy" the Syrian Orthodox Church
Samuel Smith Christian Post
More Problems With International Religious Freedom
James Zogby Huffington Post


Wednesday, May 17
Bill Nye and the Science Movement Can Learn From Religion
Tyler Huckabee WaPo
Why the Ten Commandments Occupy a Lofty Place in America
Ruth Graham Slate
Church-Turned-Nightclub Comes Back as Worship Site
Peter Smith Post-Gazette
60 Years Ago: Billy Graham's Madison Square Garden Crusade
The Gospel Coalition
Retrieval for the Sake of Renewal
Timothy George First Things
An Interview with Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
Marie Griffith Religion & Politics
Catholic Teaching Doesn't Always Forbid Death Penalty
Marc Mason Catholic Herald
What a Modesto Meeting Says About the Francis Church
John Gehring Commonweal
Religious Freedom: Is Russia the Next Saudi Arabia?
Hannah Gais Public Orthodoxy
Christians, in an Epochal Shift, Are Leaving the Middle East
Maria Abi-Habib WSJ
The Myth of the Muslim World
Asma Afsaruddin Chronicle of Higher Education
What Trump Can Expect on His Tour of the Middle East
Robin Wright New Yorker


Thursday, May 18
Christian Colleges Expand Visual Art Programs
G. Jeffrey MacDonald Deseret News
Bono Has a Message for Young Christian Artists
Carol Kuruvilla Huffington Post
Episcopalians, Methodists Propose Full-Communion
Mary Frances Schjonberg ENS
Can Catholics and Protestants Still Debate Mary?
Nick Hallett Catholic Herald
Mormons and Protestants Find New Home in Orthodox Church
Bob Mims SL Trib.
This Woman Preacher Is Schooling the Christian Boys Club
Jonathan Merritt RNS
Can Cannabis and Christ Coexist?
Alyson Martin BuzzFeed
The Precarious Task of Praying With Presidents in a Media Age
Linda Perkins CT
Twenty-First-Century Conservatism
R. R. Reno First Things
Beyond the Pulpits: The Political Power of Evangelicals
Jeff Sharlet New Republic
Myanmar Is Restoring Temples to Rebuild Its Heritage
Mike Ives New York Times
The Stunning Menorah Depictions on Display in the Vatican
Ruth Ellen Gruber JTA


Friday, May 19
Is the Old Testament Dying?
Yonat Shimron Salt Lake Tribune
The One Commandment Almost All Americans Support
Aaron Earls Facts & Trends
Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought
Daniel Cox FiveThirtyEight
Accepting Cancer, With a Little Help From Tao Te Ching
Jeffrey Weiss RNS
A Nun's Unsolved Murder Tears Apart a Community
Nick Ripatrazone America
The Scandalous Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
Justin Taylor TGC
10 Things Christians Get Wrong About Feminism
Kristin Du Mez Patheos
Drone Dilemma: Can Aid Groups Use a Military Symbol?
David Parish CT
Callista and Newt Have a Complex Catholic History
Terry Mattingly GetReligion
The Secret to Why Evangelicals Love Donald Trump
The Economist
Donald Trump's Risky Religious Pilgrimage
Daniel Burke CNN
The Complicated Relationship Between the U.S. and Vatican
Kelsey Dallas Deseret
Saturday, May 20
Haunting Photos From the Largest Spiritualist Community
Alice Newell-Hanson Vice
Harvey Keitel to Star in Fatima Movie
David Gibson Religion News Service
Why We Eat Breakfast Cereal: Seventh-Day Adventists
Luke T. Harrington CaPC
The Second Coming of Televangelist Jim Bakker
Kelsey McKinney BuzzFeed
Rob Bell Takes Back the Bible
Jana Riess Salt Lake Tribune
Five Things to Know About Reinhold Niebuhr
Elesha Coffman Christianity Today
A Secular Biography of George Washington
Thomas S. Kidd The Gospel Coalition
The New Christian Zionism
Daniel Hummel First Things
U.S. Church Wrestles With L.G.B.T. Catholics
Michael O'Loughlin America
A Conservative Christian College Protest of Mike Pence
Molly Wicker NY Times
Those 29 Times Presidents and Popes Have Intersected
Ines San Martin Crux
Trump Trip Offers Religious Opportunities and Pitfalls
Michele Chabin Deseret News
Monday, May 22
Believers and Haters: Social Media Connects Faith Leaders
Kelsey Dallas Deseret
Meet the Minister Making Room for Refugees in Dallas
Anne Petersen BuzzFeed
Updating the American Spirit
Martin E. Marty Sightings
Pregnancy and Abortion at Christian Schools
Sheryl Gay Stolberg New York Times
Diversity Trouble at Duke Divinity
Carl W. Kenney Religion News Service
The Military, Suicide, and Faith
Tony Gill Research on Religion
What Does Christianity Teach About Protecting Yourself?
Richard Ostling Patheos
The Challenge of Fatima
William Doino Jr. First Things
Do Protesters Have a Right to Crash Worship Services?
Terry Mattingly GetReligion
Franklin Graham Is the Evangelical Id
Emma Green The Atlantic
The Theology Beneath the Trump-Comey Conflict
Steven Weitzman Christianity Today
Trump's Two Minds on Islam
Daniel Burke CNN


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