Week of July 17, 2017 Archives

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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


Tuesday, July 18
When 1980s Satanic Panic Targeted Procter & Gamble
Robert Skvarla Atlas Obscura
Finding God at CrossFit
John Van Sloten Religion News Service
The Pioneering Felipe Alou, Latino Christian Athlete
Paul Putz Sportianity
Police Chaplains Take a Stronger Role in Community Policing
John O'Connell Crux
Ayn Rand's Anti-Religious Philosophy
Martin E. Marty Sightings
Trump Threatens to Change the Course of American Christianity
John Fea WaPo
Why I'm Leaving the Southern Baptist Convention
Lawrence Ware New York Times
Christian Thinkers Denounce Benedict Option
Emile Doak The American Conservative
Christians and Politics: Beyond "All" or "Nothing"
John Stackhouse ABC Relig. & Ethics
From What Is Left Over: Christianity and Culture
Remi Brague First Things
Who Gets to Own Iraq's Religious Heritage?
Sigal Samuel The Atlantic
Hinduism and Its Complicated History With Cows
Wendy Doniger RealClearReligion


Wednesday, July 19
How "The Bachelorette" Showed a Different Side of Sikhism
Kate Shellnutt WaPo
How to Tell a Better Cult Story
Kelsey Ford Pacific Standard
Is Religion at Work Still Taboo? Not Everywhere
Francesca Fontana Wall Street Journal
This Minister Turned His Uber Car Into a Church on Wheels
Melkorka Licea NY Post
No More Taxes for Noah's Ark Theme Park?
Linda Blackford Lexington Herald-Leader
Evangelical Is Not a Political Term
Neil J. Young Religion & Politics
Why the Age of White Christian America Is Ending
Tara Isabella Burton Vox
A Settlement on Religious Liberty vs. Anti-Discrimination?
Andrea Bayer Nat. Review
Louis C.K.: America's Unlikely Conscience on Abortion?
Charles Camosy RNS
Reproductive Rights and the New "Abortion-Pill Reversal"
Ruth Graham NYT Mag
Real Story on Dolan and Tobin? Try "America Past Acrimony"
John L. Allen Jr. Crux
Doomsday Averted on the Temple Mount, for Now
Ben Caspit Al-Monitor


Thursday, July 20
Is There a Religious Way to Get Angry?
Kelsey Dallas Deseret News
Preserving a Jewish Culinary Tradition: Pickling
Leah Koenig Tablet
Is It O.K. to Fire a Muslim Driver for Refusing to Carry Wine?
Kwame Appiah NYT
The Christian Sense and Sensibility of Jane Austen
Peter Mullen Catholic Herald
Non-Believers Find Meaning in Harry Potter
Julie Zauzmer & Michelle Boorstein WaPo
Millennials and Mormonism
Doug Fabrizio RadioWest
Intermarriage and the Future of Faith
Rod Dreher The American Conservative
Conservative Evangelicals Revel in Access to the President
Adelle M. Banks RNS
George McGovern and the Religious Left
David Swartz Patheos
The Day MLK Prayed at the Billy Graham New York Crusade
Justin Taylor TGC
The Peronist Pope Francis
Daniel Mahoney Library of Law & Liberty
Scientists Uncover St Columba's Cell on Iona
Ken Macdonald BBC News


Friday, July 21
Bruce Springsteen, From Religion to Faith
Eileen Chapman & Eileen Reinhard Sightings
Good Deeds Done by Christians Often Go Unseen
Bob Smietana LifeWay
Protestants Keep Ditching Denominations
Kate Shellnutt Christianity Today
Public Teachers Find Space for Religion in the Classroom
Matt Masterson WTTW
The Future of an Aging Mississippi Muslim Community
Abigail Hauslohner WaPo
Evangelical Board to Trump: Do Not Deport Christians
Samuel Smith Christian Post
Jesus Shrugged: If Christians Go On Strike
Addison Del Mastro American Conservative
Church to Celebrate Life of Transgender Catholic Priest
Tim Funk Charlotte Observer
Challenges Gingrich Will Face as Vatican Ambassador
Sarah Pulliam Bailey SL Trib.
Two (Strong) Views on Blockbuster Essay About US Religion, Politics
Crux
The Media's Pope Francis Problem
Matthew Walther The Week
The Martyrdom of Jacques Hamel
Christopher White Wall Street Journal
Saturday, July 22
The Death of Reading Is Threatening the Soul
Philip Yancey Washington Post
The Summer of Love Sparked Today's Religious Movements
Don Lattin The Gazette
Why Does U2 Irk so Many People?
David Dark America
Scenes From a Hardcore Christian Music Festival
KC McGinnis The Guardian
Don't Believe in God? Maybe You'll Try U.F.O.s
Clay Routledge New York Times
What Andrew Jackson Could Teach Trump About Religion
Justin Taylor TGC
Donald Trump Meets the Worship Wars
Terry Mattingly On Religion
Mary Magdalene, Feminist Icon?
Ramona V. Tausz First Things
Why the Catholic Church Bans Gluten-Free Communion Wafers
Joanne Pierce RCR
A Papal Confidant Triggers a Furor Among American Catholics
The Economist
The Dilemma of the Burqini
Shadi Hamid The Atlantic
A Buddhist Prayer Festival Fills a Remote Village With Color
Alexandra Radu RNS
Monday, July 24
New Discoveries Renew Questions About Extraterrestrial Life
Adam Hincks America
The Spiritualist Convictions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Michael Dirda Weekly Standard
Retracing Steps on the Mormon Trail
Peggy Fletcher Stack Salt Lake Tribune
How Churches Respond to Their Changing Neighborhoods
Holly Meyer USA Today
1967 Riot: Prayers in Black and White
Niraj Warikoo Detroit Free Press
A Look Inside Philadelphia's Thriving Muslim Culture
Abigail Hauslohner Wash. Post
The Social Gospel Movement and Today's Religious Left
Christopher Evans RCR
"Cultural Climate Change"
Rod Dreher The American Conservative
An Abrahamic Alternative to the Benedict Option
Bruce Ashford
Why Is Utopia Less Interesting Than Dystopia?
Michael J. Lewis First Things
Between Religious Nationalism and Radical Secularism
John Wilsey Public Discourse
Can Anything Burst Pope's Media Bubble? Nah, Probably Not
John L. Allen Jr. Crux


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