Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era
For the third time in this young century, Reinhold Niebuhr is getting another splash of…
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Cheese State Reality Check: On The Wisconsin Idea and the Social Gospel
This Saturday, I’m off to a day-long meeting at a church with an interesting history….
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The Sanders Insurgency: A Return to the “Secular Sacred”?
What a significant part of the political class disparages as Bernie Sanders’ egomania may actually…
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What We Don’t Know About Black Social Gospel: A Long-Neglected Tradition Is Reclaimed
For twenty years I have sprinkled discussions of the black social gospel into various books…
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Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?
Churchly opposition to the early labor movement is a relatively familiar tale, but a new book tells a different story.
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The Blame for Ferguson: A Response
In a recent article for The Cubit’s series on blame, RD associate editor Andrew Aghapour…
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YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books
The decision comes on page 8. The sound of screaming is coming from behind a…
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No Zombies Here, Just a Bunch of Women Talking to the Dead
What inspired you to write Talking to the Dead? I vividly recall the experiences that…
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The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback
Even with depleted social policy and outreach organizations, liberal Protestant denominations continue to address issues pertaining to war, intervention, and foreign policy; debt relief, foreign aid, and economic development; white supremacism, racial justice, and affirmative action; women’s rights, gay and lesbian issues, reproductive rights, and child welfare; acid rain, ozone depletion, bio-diversity, and eco-justice; and much more.
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Martin Luther King: Libertarian and Anti-Abortion Social Conservative
King’s fundamentally religious message of the requirements of justice have been confused, or perhaps deliberately distorted, by those who want to claim his support for their cause.
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