Week of August 14, 2017 Archives

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Monday, August 14
How Will the Church Reckon With Charlottesville?
Emma Green The Atlantic
Time for All Christians to Denounce White Supremacy
Joshua DuBois The Daily Beast
The Curse of Identity Politics
Rod Dreher The American Conservative
Why White Supremacists Go After Jews
Yair Rosenberg Washington Post
Amid Nuclear Fears, Remember a Pope Helped Avert Armageddon
John Allen Crux
Bradley Wright on the Science of Sinning
Tony Gill Research on Religion
Mormon Counsel on Lunch With the Opposite Sex
Peggy Fletcher Stack Salt Lake Trib.
Christian Author Jen Hatmaker on Getting Books Banned
Emily McFarlan Miller RNS
Why Is America Crazy? Atlantic Cover Story Has Answer
Terry Mattingly GetReligion
Struggling, Congregations Look to Sell Houses of Worship
Vivian Wang NY Times
"Meet a Muslim" Events Hope to Dispel Misconceptions
Kristin J. Bender AP
Ranking Countries by Their Blasphemy Laws
The Economist


Tuesday, August 15
You'll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf
Marcus Rediker NYT
Faith Leaders Call for Peace in Aftermath of Charlottesville
Kelsey Dallas Deseret
Racism Angers Jesus, But Does It Anger His Church?
Russell Moore Washington Post
Rage in Response to White Supremacy
Christopher Brittain ABC Religion & Ethics
Hillary Clinton's Pastor Plagiarized Part of New Book
Daniel Burke CNN
Robert Jeffress on God, Trump, and North Korea
Bobby Ross Jr. Religion News Service
The Dangerous Progressive Tilt Toward Secularism
Chris Coons The Atlantic
Custom Versus Culture: A Modest Distinction
Christopher Landrum RealClearReligion
The Women Who Were Christian Athletes Before Title IX
Paul Putz Sportianity
Americans May Be More Tolerant of Muslims Than Ever
Paul E. Peterson WSJ
The Freedom to Choose Your Religion Comes With a Price
Emma Green The Atlantic
German Churchgoers Encouraged to Tweet From the Pews
Esme Nicholson NPR


Wednesday, August 16
After Charlottesville, Black Pastors Confront How Political to Get
Jeff Stein Vox
White Christians Must Condemn White Supremacy
Marie Griffith Religion & Politics
Why Charlottesville Marchers Were Obsessed With Jews
Emma Green The Atlantic
Moral Clarity, Academic Virtues at Christian Colleges
John Fea Way of Improvement
Two-Thirds of Americans Admit They Are Sinners
Bob Smietana Christianity Today
Pastors Must Help People Wrestle With Broken Minds
Terry Mattingly On Religion
The Forthcoming Mormon Memory Wars
Matthew Crandall RealClearReligion
Religious Liberty for All
Curtis W. Freeman Religion News Service
Saving Christians From Genocide
William Doino Jr. First Things
Rescuing Syriac Manuscripts in Iraq
Amir Harrak ASOR
Gandhi Won't Leave India
Gopalkrishna Gandhi New York Times
Hinduism, Christianity, and Nepal's Battle for Souls
Pete Pattisson The Guardian


Thursday, August 17
America Is Throwing an Eclipse Party
Nicholas Wolfram Smith National Catholic Register
Children of Catholic Priests Live With Sorrow
Michael Rezendes Boston Globe
After Charlottesville, White Pastors Ask: Are We Complicit?
Tara Isabella Burton Vox
Facing Our Legacy of Lynching
D. L. Mayfield Christianity Today
Covering Anti-Semitism as Distinct From "Racism"
Ira Rifkin GetReligion
How Nashville's Interfaith Culture Has Grown
Katherine Scheu Tennessean
Bill Shillady on Ministering to Hillary Clinton
Zach Hoag Religion News Service
Is Chicken Kosher? Israel's Rabbis Are Divided
Liel Leibovitz Tablet Magazine
The Celebration of a Christian Tradition in Tunis
Simon Speakman Cordall Guardian
Hindu Today, Muslim Tomorrow
Saba Imtiaz The Atlantic
A Look at America's Latest Report on Religious Persecution
The Economist
After Hobby Lobby Scandal, a Spotlight on Antiquities Sales
Michele Chabin RNS


Friday, August 18
To Some, the Solar Eclipse Crossing America Is an Act of God
Julie Zauzmer WaPo
Seeing God in the Solar Eclipse
John ZuHone Sinai and Synapses
Faith in the "Separation" of Anna Faris and Chris Pratt
Terry Mattingly GetReligion
The Smithsonian Gets Religion
Jenna Weissman Joselit Tablet Magazine
God Is Referenced in Every State Constitution
Aleksandra Sandstrom Pew
Chapel Ministers to Souls Amid Grand Canyon Splendor
Ana Rodriguez-Soto CNS
As a White Evangelical Leader, I've Said Too Little on Racism
Scott Arbeiter WaPo
White Evangelicals Oppose Calls to Impeach Trump
Kate Shellnutt Christianity Today
Corporations Are Replacing Churches as America's Conscience
Tara Burton Vox
Charlottesville and the Ministry of Reconciliation
Bobby Ross Jr. Christian Chronicle
What Faith Groups Are Doing to Help Christians in Iraq
Paul Singer USA Today
India's Muslims and the Price of Partition
Ajaz Ashraf New York Times
Saturday, August 19
Religious Tradition Has a Lot to Say About Solar Eclipses
Julie Zauzmer WaPo
The Eclipse Is Deeper Than We Thought
Jeffrey Salkin Religion News Service
Is the Solar Eclipse a Message From God?
Marina Koren The Atlantic
Pope Francis' Astronomer on Finding Meaning in the Eclipse
Elizabeth Dias TIME
The Reformation: Classical Music's Punk Moment
John Butt The Guardian
The Theology of Financial Accounting
Jerry Bowyer Forbes
The Catholic Church Dabbles With Impact Investing
The Economist
Why Do Christians Hesitate on Anti-Christian Persecution?
John L. Allen Jr. Crux
North Korea: The World's Most Anti-Christian Nation
Hollie McKay FOX News
How Refugees Saved a Church on the Brink of Collapsing
Bob Smietana WaPo
Explaining Polygamy and Its History in the Mormon Church
Joanna Brooks RCR
Young Muslim Campers Learn to Cope With Rising Hate
Leila Fadel NPR
Monday, August 21
How People of Different Faiths View the Solar Eclipse
Emily McFarlan Miller RNS
What Our Faith Tells Us About Healing America
William Barber & Franklin Graham CNN
White Christian Women and Polite Evangelical Culture
Emma Green The Atlantic
Some Liberty Univ. Grads Are Returning Their Diplomas
Sarah McCammon NPR
Young Americans Are Less Supportive of Religious Freedom
Kelsey Dallas Deseret
The History of a Hitler Supporting Pastor's Warning
Michael Rosenwald WaPo
How Christianity Has Dealt With Nuclear Weapons
The Economist
God, Guns, and Oil
Bob Smietana Christianity Today
Countercultural San Francisco Parish Attracts Congregation
Valerie Schmalz Crux
Emily Fisher Gray on Luther's 95 Theses
Tony Gill Research on Religion
Your Mom's Food: 'Til Pork Do Us Part
Dan Pashman The Sporkful
Everyone's Suspicious of Atheists — Even Other Atheists
Thomas MacMillan NY Mag.


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