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Religion and the Republic
Looking to the French Revolution and the writings of Tocqueville for insight into Trump’s America.
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Philip Gorski
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Public Books
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November 14, 2017
Lehigh County, Pa., Fights the Courts to Keep the Cross in Its Seal
The case hinges on whether its display is to honor local history or Christianity.
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Tyler Arnold
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National Review
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November 14, 2017
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America @ Worship
How social media is – and isn't – changing American religion.
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Sara Georgini
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October 29, 2017
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500 Years Ago Christianity Changed. It Changed Again in the 1960s.
That the 500th anniversary of Luther’s act has been noted without éclat may be something to celebrate.
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Patrick Lacroix
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HNN
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October 28, 2017
Why did James Comey Name His Secret Twitter Account ‘Reinhold Niebuhr’?
Niebuhr is a theological hero to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
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Michelle Boorstein
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Washington Post
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October 24, 2017
The Role of Sports Ministries in the NFL Protests
A number of black athletes are fueling their activism with Christian faith.
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Paul Putz
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
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October 17, 2017
How to Balance Competing Claims of Religious Freedom?
Peyote use has been defended with religious liberty arguments. So has Bible reading in public schools.
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Tisa Wenger
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The Christian Century
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October 16, 2017
The Complexities of Racial and Religious Identities
Judith Weisenfeld’s book, New World A-Coming, reinterprets the various religious movements among African Americans in the early twentieth century.
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Tisa Wenger
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Black Perspectives
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September 29, 2017
Losing Our Civil Religion
Trump's unbridled rhetorical rampage has stripped the presidency of its moral ambition and authority.
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John D. Carlson
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
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September 26, 2017
When the U.S. Government Tried to Fight Communism With Buddhism
Recent violence in Myanmar reminds us that religion has long been central to Southeast Asian politics.
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Joe Freeman
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Politico Magazine
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September 10, 2017
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Excremental Empire
John Gregory Bourke’s "Scatalogic Rites of All Nations" and the American West.
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Benjamin Breen
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September 8, 2017
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How The Culture Wars Destroyed Public Education
The left's Pyrrhic victory in the culture wars.
by
Andrew Hartman
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Made By History
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September 5, 2017
Talking God in the United States
What are Americans really talking about when they talk about religious freedom?
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Rachel Gordan
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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August 31, 2017
America's First Addiction Epidemic
The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.
by
Christopher Finan
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Longreads
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August 29, 2017
Orphan Utopia
The story of a spiritual visionary who in 1884, set out to create a colony of orphans in the New Mexico desert.
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Reed McConnell
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Cabinet
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August 15, 2017
Atheists in the Pantheon
Leigh Eric Schmidt profiles the nineteenth century's notable "village atheists."
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Joseph Blankholm
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Public Books
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August 14, 2017
The Freedom to Choose Your Religion Comes With a Price
In a new book, a historian explores the American fascination with conversion, and its costs.
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Lincoln Mullen
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Emma Green
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The Atlantic
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August 12, 2017
What Politicians Mean When They Say The United States Was Founded As A Christian Nation
Today's Christian nationalists and liberal secularists both oversimplify the history of the nation's founding.
by
Sam Haselby
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Washington Post
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July 4, 2017
The True Story of the Fight for Religious Equality in the US
The U.S. Constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, but the fight for religious equality was only just beginning.
by
Richard D. Brown
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Aeon
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June 28, 2017
The Artifacts of White Supremacy
Why fiery crosses, white robes, and the American flag were seized upon by the 1920s Klan in its campaign for white nationalism.
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Kelly J. Baker
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Religion and Culture Forum
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June 14, 2017
A “Thorough Deist?” The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin
Historian Thomas S. Kidd examines the tension between Benjamin Franklin's deism and his frequent religious rhetoric.
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Thomas S. Kidd
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Age of Revolutions
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June 5, 2017
The Most Successful First 100 Days Of An Administration Didn't Belong To Who You Think
Dwight Eisenhower did more in his first hundred days than change laws—he changed a culture.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Esquire
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April 27, 2017
Finding North America’s Lost Medieval City
Cahokia was bigger than Paris — then it was completely abandoned. I went there to find out why.
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Annalee Newitz
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Ars Technica
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December 13, 2016
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American as Pumpkin Pie: A History of Thanksgiving
Why Pilgrims would be stunned by our "traditional" Thanksgiving table, and other surprising truths about the invention of our national holiday.
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BackStory
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November 25, 2016
Freedom vs. Liberty: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Chose One Over the Other
Religious "freedom" and "liberty" have always had different connotations.
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Stephanie Russell-Kraft
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Religion Dispatches
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October 12, 2016
American Secular
The founding moment of the United States brought a society newly freed from religion. What went wrong?
by
Sam Haselby
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Aeon
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May 26, 2016
Supersized Christianity: Protestant Megachurches in America
Megachurches represent an enduring model of ecclesial organization in Protestantism.
by
Joshua D. Ambrosius
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Dissertation Reviews
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April 26, 2016
TIME's 'Is God Dead?' Cover Turns 50
How the April 8, 1966, cover of TIME set off a firestorm.
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TIME
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April 8, 2016
Our Pungent History: Sweat, Perfume, and the Scent of Death
Throughout the long and pungent history of humanity, smelling healthy has been as delightful as it has disgusting.
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Hunter Oatman-Stanford
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Collectors Weekly
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March 8, 2016
Bernie Sanders Bids for Jewish History
The Vermont senator isn’t religious, but a victory in Iowa or New Hampshire would be the first ever for a Jewish presidential candidate.
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Russell Berman
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The Atlantic
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January 27, 2016
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