First Impressions # 93: Julie Holcomb on the Quaker Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of
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Interviews
Impolite Conversation #16: Reading the Bible With Latinx Eyes
On this episode of Impolite Conversation, Miguel de la Torre joins us to talk about how the marginalization of Latinx culture creates new
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Amr al-Azm on the Syrian Civil War
How did the conflict in Syria begin? What does the future hold for the Syrian people? In this wide-ranging interview, Sarah Eltantawi speaks
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First Impressions #91: Josef Sorett on A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics
Most of the major African American literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular. In reality, religion
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First Impressions #90: Erik Hammerstrom on the Science of Chinese Buddhism
Chinese Buddhists saw modern science as an effective means for the investigation of knowledge but critiqued its underlying social ethic. Kristian Petersen talks
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Impolite Conversation #15: Teaching Evolution and Trump in Utah
For the month of September, Tim Hill and Dan Clanton discuss the challenges to teaching evolution with Josh Rosenau of the National Center for
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First Impressions #89: Religion, Science, and Conflict in American Public Life
Why do religion and science often appear in conflict in America’s public sphere? The more fundamental divide is between how media elites and ordinary Americans
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First Impressions #88: Eleonore Stump on the God of the Bible and of Philosophers
Can the God of the Bible be reconciled with the God of medieval philosophers? Joseph Ryan Kelly interviews Eleonore Stump about her new
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Impolite Conversation #14: Supreme Court Roundup 2016
On this episode, we chat with friend of the show Ann Duncan about the Supreme Court term that just ended and how
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First Impressions #87: Christopher Driscoll on White Lies, Race, and American Religion
The distinctions that we pose between ourselves and others, such as white and black, end up having a wide array of consequences. Kristian
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