Week of July 10, 2017 Archives

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Monday, July 10
Theology of Play: Not Always Doing Something Useful
Mark Galli Christianity Today
What Theologians Can Learn From Sufjan Stevens
Christine McCarthy America
Bringing Book of Mormon Scenes to Life
Sean P. Means Salt Lake Tribune
Nuns Build Chapel in Proposed Pipeline's Path
Amanda Watts & Paige Levin CNN
Gerhard Muller: The Good Soldier
Marco Tosatti First Things
Interested in Catholic Reaction to Francis? Get off Twitter
John L. Allen Jr. Crux
When the Evangelical Life Is Trouble for the Soul
Elizabeth Bruenig Washington Post
Reagan's Religious Faith and Spiritual Counsel
Mark Tooley The Stream
Marco Rubio Is Tweeting the Most Republican Part of the Bible
Joel Baden Politico
Muhammad Ali's Faith Is Being Scrubbed From His Legacy
Hannah Allam BuzzFeed
He Became a Hate Crime Victim. She Became a Widow.
Audra Burch New York Times
Here's How to Respond to Religious Freedom Crises
Kelsey Dallas Deseret News


Tuesday, July 11
The Radical Origins of Christianity
James Wood New Yorker
Joan of Art: Mystic Maintains Hold on Artistic Imagination
Kimberly Winston Deseret
Saint Teresa's Famous Blue-Rimmed White Sari Trademarked
Michael Safi Guardian
Is God Boosting Stephen Colbert's Ratings?
Jonathan Merritt The Week
A Decade Later, the iPhone Shapes Lives and Even Souls
Terry Mattingly On Religion
Trinity Lutheran Back to "Being a Little Church"
Rick Montgomery Kansas City Star
Republicans, Democrats Divided on Impact of Religion
Emily McFarlan Miller RNS
Revisiting the Legacy of Jerry Falwell Sr.
Richard Flory RealClearReligion
Passion for Equality: Moral Distinctions That Exclude
Mark Movsesian First Things
Taking Health Care From the Sick and Food From the Hungry
John Carr America
Euthanasia, Dignity, and "Spirituality Lite"
Martin E. Marty Sightings
Do New York Times Obits Have a Jewish Problem?
Gabriela Geselowitz Tablet


Wednesday, July 12
Bikini Begone: Religious Modesty at the Beach
Madeleine Buckley Salt Lake Tribune
Port Chaplains Offer Comfort to Seafarers
Wendy Cadge RealClearReligion
Roswell, Sacred Shrine of UFO Enthusiasts
Matthew Wills JSTOR Daily
Pope Francis Creates New Path to Sainthood
Hannah Brockhaus Crux
Why the Catholic Church Says No to Gluten-Free Communion
Sarah Pulliam WaPo
Religious Organizations Still Rank High in Trust
Kate Shellnutt Christianity Today
Why I Went Back to Church
Max Perry Mueller Religion & Politics
Eugene Peterson on Why He's Leaving Public Life
Jonathan Merritt RNS
Martin Luther's Intellectual and Spiritual Life
Tony Gill Research on Religion
Je Suis Charlie, Once More
R. R. Reno First Things
In Search of the Origin of the Jews
Benjamin Balint Wall Street Journal
The Never-Ending Argument Over What Is "Real Islam"
The Economist


Thursday, July 13
Taking the Spiritual Aspect of Sports More Seriously
Edward Hastings RNS
A Chaplain Designed a Way for ICU Patients to Request Prayers
Ben Tinker CNN
How Catholic Health Care Is Fighting Assisted Suicide
Michael O'Loughlin America
Holy Tattoo! A 700-Year Old Christian Tradition in Jerusalem
Adelaide Mena CNA
The Reformation Did More Than Transform Christianity
Elizabeth Bruenig The Nation
The Church's Challenge in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs ABC Religion & Ethics
Do Churches Have a Positive Impact on America?
Kelsey Dallas Deseret News
Walking a Fine Line: Pastor and Politician
Bobby Ross Jr. The Gazette
Evangelical Pastors Lay Hands on Trump
Sarah Pulliam Bailey Washington Post
LifeWay Prepared to Stop Selling The Message Bible
Kate Shellnutt Christianity Today
Superstition and the Pretense of Secularism
Matthew Schmitz First Things
China's Religious Revival Fuels Environmental Activism
Javier Hernandez NY Times


Friday, July 14
Faith and the Cosmos: Astrophysicist Fields the Big Questions
Lauren Markoe RNS
If You're Interested in the History of Sports and Christianity...
Chris Gehrz Patheos
How the Hipster Can Save the Monk (and Vice Versa)
David J. Michael America
The Original "Spiritual But Not Religious" American
Jonathan Den Hartog TGC
The Reason Creationism Support Is at a New Low
Tom Krattenmaker USA Today
Love Your Enemies: Moral Absurdity or Genius?
Audrey D. Thompson Sightings
Actually, I Would Not Perform a Gay Marriage
Eugene Peterson Washington Post
Why Trump Puts His Faith in Evangelicals
Daniel Burke CNN
The Supreme Court, Religion, and School Choice
John Taylor RealClearReligion
Shariah's Winding Path Into Modernity
Mustafa Akyol New York Times
How Faith Groups Help Expose the "Hidden Figure of Crime"
Kelsey Dallas Deseret
By Expanding Sainthood, Pope Reflects New Anti-Christian Reality
John Allen Crux
Saturday, July 15
Summer Reading: Hot, Hot, Hot Edition
Kimberly Winston Religion News Service
Thoreau at 200: A Man of Many Passions
Randall Fuller Wall Street Journal
What to Make of Beyonce's Virgin Mary Imagery
Katie Edwards RealClearReligion
The Saint Who Rolled With the Pigs
Luke T. Harrington Christ & Pop Culture
Luddites and the Contest of Man Versus Machine
David Parrish Christianity Today
John Calvin: The Religious Reformer and Capitalism
Peter Feuerherd JSTOR Daily
Beyond the Charitable-Industrial Complex
Laura Bramon First Things
Why Bonhoeffer Matters Today
Stanley Hauerwas ABC Religion & Ethics
The Political Effects of Mainline Churches Emptying
Lyman Stone Vox
The Axis Between Russian Orthodox and American Evangelicals
The Economist
Why the Pope Is Fighting for Charlie Gard
O. Carter Snead CNN
New Sign on Pope Francis's Door: "Complaining Not Allowed"
Ines San Martin Crux
Monday, July 17
Will Prayer Improve Your Athletic Performance?
Jennifer Graham Deseret News
The Fight About the Future of Conservative Judaism
Emma Green The Atlantic
How Should St. Augustine's Name Be Pronounced?
Justin Taylor The Gospel Coalition
Mormonism's Russia Dilemma
Peggy Fletcher Stack Salt Lake Tribune
RIP, Anti-Mormon Literature
Jana Riess Religion News Service
Saint or Not, Dorothy Day Belongs on the Stage
Margot Patterson America
Two Cardinals Reflect on the Paths of Catholicism
Sharon Otterman New York Times
The Catholic Hierarchy Makes It Difficult to Punish Abusers
Mathew Schmalz RCR
Pope Benedict's SOS
Rod Dreher The American Conservative
The Celebrity Jesuit Connecting With LGBTQ Catholics
Emily Perper Longreads
Author Rebecca Stott on Growing up in a Christian Cult
A Martinez NPR
Nostalgia About Religion News Coverage
Richard Ostling GetReligion


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