MRBlog | Lenten Battles: Pope Francis, Obama Effigies, and Chocolate
By Thomas J. Whitley In his address on Sunday, Pope Francis spoke of Lent as “a time of combat,” a time of
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MRBlog | Embracing the Terrorist Narrative
By Thomas J. Whitley Do as I do and not as I say. This seems to be the message of President to Obama
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MRBlog | What We Can Learn From ISIS’s Campaign Against “Sexual Deviance”
By Thomas J. Whitley In my first post for the MRBlog, I looked at the way the language we use to describe a
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MRBlog | The Rhetoric of Similarity: Republicans, Complementarians, and ISIS
By Thomas J. Whitley First there was the response to President Obama’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast (I wrote a bit about
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Defining Nacho Cheese
By Timothy Michael Law One of my favorite blogs is the Culture on the Edge group out of the University of Alabama, and
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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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MRBlog: [Video] Monica Miller on What’s Next for Religion and Hip Hop
Listen to the entire interview with Anthony Pinn and Monica Miller here. [youtube id=”3xsGSsbQ85c” width=”600″ height=”350″]
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MRBlog: [Video] Anthony Pinn on the Grammar of Hip Hop
Listen to the entire interview with Anthony Pinn and Monica Miller here. [youtube id=”vzENgO6ONSo” width=”600″ height=”350″]
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MRBlog: DISPATCHES. Reflections from Paris
By Richard Landes Le tout Paris is talking about it. Everywhere in Paris last week, we heard the voices of horror and astonishment and, now,
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MRBlog: Marginalia editor wins major award
A hearty congratulations to our editor in Modern Jewish History, Adam D. Mendelsohn, who has just been awarded the Jewish Book Council’s “Celebrate
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