Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)
The strongest Tibetan response to China since 1959 and the media is only getting part of the story…
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RDBook: Selling the Good News
Who put the mega in megachurch? Two new books, one on star evangelicals and one that focuses on African-American televangelists, tell the story—and explain the remarkable influence of celebrity preachers in the religious marketplace.
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New Research Sends Message to Churches: Modernize or Die
Instead of building excitement and a commitment to social justice, the Good News is producing yawns. Poll data shows.
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40 Million Nonbelievers in America? The Secret Is Almost Out
Buried in the results of a recent survey is the fact that secularists may now be one of America’s largest minorities—larger than gays or African Americans. Will nonbelievers, traditionally one of the most loathed demographics, begin to feel their oats and demand greater recognition in the public square?
Read MoreBloody Religious Conflict on the Way Out?
Revisiting the secularization hypothesis and Alan Wolfe’s Atlantic essay.
Read MorePraying in Fear
A peek into the vexing obstacles to Muslim prayer in American life.
Read MoreA Scholar Responds: Candidates, Think Twice When Invoking Religion
A response to Randall Balmer’s analysis of Romney’s JFK speech…
Read MoreProlife Evangelical, Gushee, Tired of Silence
Only when both sides of the abortion debate express their views will we find common ground. Restrained discourse helps nobody.
Read MoreWill Gay Marriage Split the Church? Yep.
A recent article in Time quoting conservative Christians decrying the split in the church makes it sound as if this isn’t the normal state of things.
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Chabon, Safran-Foer, Krauss—the “New Yiddishists”—Don’t Speak Yiddish
On Vanity Fair’s profile of the post-Roth and Bellow generation of Jewish novelists.
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