religion

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/1/2020
  

  White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

  At an earlier point in American history, some Christian theologians went so far as to argue that the enslavement of human beings was justifiable from a biblical point of view.

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Trump and the Puritans

  by Martyn Whittock

  No one would ever call Donald Trump a Puritan. But the 17th century religious movement is a foundation of Trump's America.

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• SOURCE: DCist
  5/19/2020
  

  The Bible Museum Has Another Epic Issue With One Of Its Artifacts

  Federal prosecutors in New York filed a civil action to forfeit one of the museum's clay tablets containing an excerpt of the "Epic of Gilgamesh."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/19/2020
  

  Fundamentalist Pandemics

  by Juan Cole

  What evangelicals could learn from "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam."

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• SOURCE: Forward
  5/18/2020
  

  Reform Judaism is a Wounded Giant. A Historian Explains Why it Got so Big.

  by Karla Goldman

  The Union for Reform Judaism faces a financial crisis because, while it shapes the religious practices of Reform Jews, many local congregations face their own financial difficulties and question the value of supporting a distant central organization.

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• SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune
  5/19/2020
  

  Analysis: Al Mohler, Southern Baptist Leader, Says He Was ‘Stupid’ To Defend Slavery

  In December 2018, Albert Mohler, longtime president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, released a report detailing and denouncing the school’s legacy of supporting slavery and segregation. However, evidence suggests both the denomination's and Mohler's personal reckoning have been incomplete.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/13/2020
  

  A Mystery at Oxford

  A well-funded effort by American evangelical Christians to identify archaeological evidence for the New Testament is at the center of a scandal. 

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• SOURCE: Religion News Service
  5/9/2020
  

  Mormon Women are Finding — and Using — Their Voices. Are Men in the Church Listening?

  by Jana Riess

  A new collection of essays should spark consideration of long struggles by Mormon women to claim and exercise influence in the faith. The author fears that it won't. 

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• 5/10/2020
  

  COVID-19 and the White Horse Prophecy: The Theology of Ammon Bundy

  by Betsy Gaines Quammen

  In a country with segments of people who deny science, act on revelation, see regular events as either conspiratorial or supernatural, COVID-19 offers a platform for misinformation and agitation.

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• SOURCE: Contingent
  4/25/2020
  

  Queen of Heaven, Empress of Hell

  by Vanessa R. Corcoran

  Contemporary depictions of Mary tend to be gentle in their holiness, but Christians centuries ago envisioned her as a powerful agent who fought for their salvation.

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• SOURCE: America Magazine
  4/27/2020
  

  Review: Phyllis Zagano Makes The Case For Women Deacons

  Phyllis Zagano's most recent work "Women: Icons of Christ," examines the ways women have participated and been acknowledged as deacons in the body of Christ.

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• Trump Is Not Fighting Science, He’s Stealing Its Authority

  by Adam Laats

  Donald Trump is standing athwart the scientific process and shouting "Look at Me!" His claims to discern what science is "real" are making the coronavirus crisis far more dangerous.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/2020
  

  Americans Must Embrace Hope, Not Fear

  by Kevin M. Schultz

  Amid covid-19, it’s time to come together and recognize that diversity is an asset.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/20/2020
  

  Christian Groups That Resist Public-Health Guidelines Are Forgetting a Key Part of the Religion's History

  by Matthew Gabriele

  Scholars have shown that a large part of Christianity’s attraction in the Roman world was that it cared for the welfare of the people who were suffering.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  4/13/2020
  

  How Ron Reagan, Son of a True Believer, Became an Atheist

  How did a son of Republicans Ronald and Nancy Reagan become an “unabashed atheist”? And how did the parents take that?

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• SOURCE: WIRED
  4/10/2020
  

  ‘Here in Spirit’: An Oral History of Faith Amid the Pandemic

  Christian and Jewish leaders have been forced to reimagine what’s possible when churches, synagogues, and houses of worship are closed and group gatherings discouraged or prohibited to slow the spread of the disease.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/5/2020
  

  Bible Museum, Admitting Mistakes, Tries to Convert Its Critics

  In acknowledging that many of its artifacts had tainted histories and that others were fake, the institution hopes candor will build trust.

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• SOURCE: ABC Religion and Ethics
  3/30/2020
  

  Coping With Coronavirus Disappointments: Five Lessons From Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  For a case study in coping with disappointment in the context of isolation and social distancing, we find a surprising source of help in Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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• 3/6/2020
  

  A Founder of American Religious Nationalism

  by Katherine Stewart

  Christian nationalism today is a political movement, and its primary goal is power. Its ultimate aim, formulated by R.J. Rushdoony, is to replace our modern constitutional Republic with a “biblical” order that derives its legitimacy not from the people but from God and the Bible – or, at least, the God and the Bible that men like Rushdoony claimed to know.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  November 19, 2019
  

  WSJ Reviews Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

  by Matti Friedman

  A writer tells the story of a region through the lens of one well-documented clan.