Religion Dispatches
When I moved to New York City just over a year ago, I started going to church. More precisely, I started going to the churches—dozens of them—that were located in New York City’s public schools. I attended services all over Manhattan, in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.
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Some history on the historian.
Read MoreThe candidates’ not-straight answers on religion and religious tests for office.
Read MoreAn epic First Amendment fail.
Read MoreThe oddities of last night’s debate.
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A new essay in an influential journal illuminates little-known intersections between Catholic thought and US social history. But then it goes on to prescribe an odd fix for US labor woes: razing the wall between church and state.
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In the concluding volume of his trilogy on religion and secularism, the author argues that there is no chasm between religious belief and non-belief; certainly not in terms of politics and not even in personal terms.
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A new book shows how a cohort of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews altered the nation; from the Social Gospel movement through anti-Communism, Civil Rights and even into the rise of the religious right.
Read MoreReligion and presidential candidates, and more on Jesus and the budget.
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Since a primary goal of creationist endeavors like the proposed “Ark Park” is to rally the faithful and generate group cohesion, the various faulty logic and specious claims make little impact; it provides an explanatory framework for its intended audience’s frustrations and concerns about contemporary American life.
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