Week of June 12, 2017 Archives

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Monday, June 12
The Resurgence of the Religious Left
Laurie Goodstein New York Times
The Limitations in the Academic Study of Faith
Maureen Mullarkey Weekly Standard
Baptists Embrace Inclusive Bible Language
Jonathan Merritt & Garet Robinson Atlantic
Southern Baptist Worshipers Are at a 20-Year Low
Kate Shellnutt Christianity Today
Can Clergy Help Us Struggle With Technology Issues?
Terry Mattingly On Religion
River Pilgrimage Takes Paddlers on 400-Mile Spiritual Quest
Kathy McCormack AP
The First-Ever Dome on an LDS Temple
Scott Taylor Deseret News
What It's Like Being Sikh in America
Sarah Parvini Los Angeles Times
This Dinner Party Invites People of All Faiths to Break Bread
Deena Prichep NPR
What I Learned After the Pulse Nightclub Shooting
Joel Hunter Religion News Service
Top US Diplomat Quits China Post Because of His Faith
Julia Duin GetReligion
Pope Francis Could Be Franker on Venezuela
The Economist


Tuesday, June 13
The Top Five Big Cities for Church Attendance in America
Leah Jessen LifeZette
Our Abyss: Advances in Technology Won't Save Us
Martin E. Marty Sightings
Growing Up Baptist Taught Me Open Work Culture
Tara-Nicholle Nelson Fast Company
Haroon Moghul Writes Candidly About Growing up Muslim
Yonat Shimron RNS
Santa Muerte, the Fascinating Folk "Skeleton Saint"
Tony Gill Research on Religion
US Prepares to Deport Hundreds of Iraqi Christians
Griffin Jackson Christianity Today
Clergy Are More Partisan Than Their Parishioners
Emma Green The Atlantic
How Trump Highlights Divisions Among Southern Baptists
Holly Meyer USA Today
What This Religious Left Leader Admires About the Right
Laurie Goodstein NY Times
Bernie Sanders' Crusade Against Believing in Hell?
Michael Gerson Washington Post
Pope Francis Is Not a Liberal
Matthew Walther The Week
Vatican Tailors Try to Adapt to Francis' "Papal Athleisure"
Claire Giangrave Crux


Wednesday, June 14
The Language of Transhumanists Is Eerily Religious. Why?
Beth Singler Aeon
How St. Augustine Invented Sex
Stephen Greenblatt New Yorker
Gender Inclusivity Isn't Liberal. It's Biblical.
Kate Shellnutt Christianity Today
Rob Bell Is Now Taking Aim at the Bible
Jonathan Merritt Religion News Service
The Teenage Spiritual Crisis
Clare Ansberry Wall Street Journal
As Church Shifts, a Cardinal Welcomes Gays
Sharon Otterman New York Times
Catholic Bishops to Meet Amid Political Turmoil
Michael O'Loughlin America
How One Deep South Church Left Segregation Behind
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra TGC
Why Bernie's Attack on Christian Beliefs Was Wrong
Alex Caro RealClearReligion
Two Kingdoms: Christianity and Islam
Berny Belvedere Arc Digital
The New Christian Zionists
Dan Hummel Religion & Politics
Is There a Jewish Way of Talking?
John McWhorter Slate


Thursday, June 15
What Will Future Houses of Worship Look Like?
Michael Crosbie & Julio Bermudez RNS
How Religious Groups Grew Before the Digital Age
Bruce Morrill RealClearReligion
Priest's Love of Cars Helps Raise Funds in Poorest Diocese
Jose Montoya Crux
Finding Unexpected Spiritual Nurture in Horses
Norman Jameson Baptist News Global
Rejecting Political Assumptions Based on Religion
Geoff Mitelman The Wisdom Daily
Way Beyond the New Atheist Nonsense
George Weigel First Things
Why Evangelicals Stopped Advocating for the Environment
Andrew Spencer CT
Resolution on White Supremacy Causes Chaos at the SBC
Emma Green The Atlantic
Rev. Dr. William Barber and the Sound of Transcendence
Braxton D. Shelley Sightings
Ignorance About Catholics and Birth Control
John McCormack Weekly Standard
Catholics Should Accept and Love All LGBTQ People
James Martin TIME
Making Sense of the Befuddling News About Qatar
Ira Rifkin GetReligion


Friday, June 16
A Synagogue With a Floor of Sand
Ryan Schuessler Smithsonian Magazine
When Dressing Modestly Becomes Trendy
Sharon Silver Tablet Magazine
Augustine, the Guilty Optimist
Elizabeth Bruenig Arc Digital
The Mystical Side of Marshall McLuhan
Peter Feuerherd JSTOR Daily
Defending the Faith: Science, Progress, and Religion
Daniel Peterson Deseret News
Most Theologians Don't Use the Old Testament
Caleb Lindgren Christianity Today
A Balanced Look at Betsy DeVos' Christian High School
Mark Kellner GetReligion
Why Southern Baptists Can't Shake Their Racist Past
Jonathan Merritt Wash. Post
Catholic Groups Launch Conversation on Female Deacons
Josephine McKenna RNS
The Benedict Compulsion
James Kalb Catholic World Report
Iraqi Christians Should Not Be Deported to ISIS
Bawai Soro The Hill
What Sharia Law Means: Five Questions Answered
Asma Afsaruddin RealClearReligion
Saturday, June 17
The History of Pews Is Just as Terrible as You'd Imagine
Luke Harrington CaPC
The Latest Research on Good, Evil, and Infants
Rebecca Randall Christianity Today
Faith Leaders Unprepared to Help Make Peace With Death
Kelsey Dallas Deseret
Three Books on the Virgin Mary
Rachel Fulton Brown First Things
Faith and Family, in Transition
John Leland New York Times
A False Media Narrative of Southern Baptist Racism
Jacob Lupfer RNS
Bernie Sanders, American Universalist
Grant Shreve RealClearReligion
The Line Between Public Policy and Private Belief
The Economist
"Mega-Synagogue" Welcomes Intermarried Non-Jews
Sam Kestenbaum Forward
Hafrashat Challah, a Mitzvah, and Learning by Watching
Shia Altman Times of Israel
What Comic Books Reveal About Attitudes Toward Muslims
Robin Young WBUR
Amish Tripathi: "India's Tolkien" of Hindu Mythology
Geeta Pandey BBC News
Monday, June 19
When It Comes to Saying Grace, Americans Are Still United
Sarah Pulliam WaPo
9/11 Memorial Architect to Design Charleston Monument
Hayley Miller HuffPost
Mormon Bishop, Best-Selling Author Explains "Essentialism"
Morgan Jones Deseret
How the Hare Krishna Movement Started
Kasper van Laarhoven Bedford + Bowery
The Aftermath of Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
Heinz Schilling OUPblog
Is Calvin Among the Liberals?
Peter J. Leithart First Things
For Southern Baptists, a Sudden Awakening on the Alt-Right
Martin Marty Sightings
Conservatives Shift Debate Over Gay Weddings to Speech Rights
Ian Lovett WSJ
What Happens When Someone Burns Down Your Mosque
Hannah Allam BuzzFeed
Nice Guy or Tough Guy? The Two Faces of Pope Francis
Christopher Lamb RNS
Why Isn't There More "Jewish Food" in Israel?
Sarah Treleaven & Jamie Levin BBC
Hiding Christians in the Basement
Felipe Villamor New York Times


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