MRBlog | DISPATCHES. NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion (pt. 3) by Sarah E. Rollens
By Sarah E. Rollens On July 17, the NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion at UVa wrapped up. I
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion (pt. 2) by Sarah E. Rollens
By Sarah E. Rollens In a post last week, I reported on the first week of a three-week NEH Institute on Problems in the Study
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion (pt. 1) by Sarah E. Rollens
By Sarah E. Rollens On May 31, the NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion was convened at the University
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. In Line for Donald J. Trump by Charles Halton
Charles Halton talks with people waiting for a Trump rally A week or two ago I heard that Donald J. Trump was staging a
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. From Belarus … With Love – By David Shneer
On singing Yiddish in Belarus By David Shneer In the 1920s, passengers arriving to Minsk, the capital of the new Belorussian Soviet Socialist
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. The Pope in Ecuador – By Noah Schumer
Noah Schumer reports from Ecuador On a June evening two weeks before Pope Francis’s arrival in Ecuador, I watch a half-dozen workers balance
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. Waypoints: Navigating a Southern Soul — By Shawn Duncan
“Look for an old tractor tire on the side of the road. When you see that, turn left.” This is how we
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MRBlog: DISPATCHES. Testimony and the History of the East African Revival
Theology in Oral History By Jason Bruner The East African Revival got people talking. Converts had to confess their sins in order to
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DISPATCHES. An Interview with California Winemaker Sean Thackrey
By Charles Halton I recently travelled with my wife, Lori Halton, to Bolinas, California to talk with winemaker Sean Thackrey. Thackrey’s winemaking style is
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DISPATCHES. Notes on First Visiting Morocco: A Reverie of Fes, March 2008 – By Ted Scheinman
It was dusk and we came to one of those little Fellini crossroads in Old Fes, where five passageways meet and no one
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