Social Power, Pluralism, and Religious Sound in America – By Richard Kent Evans
Richard Kent Evans on Isaac Weiner’s Religion Out Loud Philadelphia in the late nineteenth century was a noisy place. The clip-clop of horse
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Modern Christianity
Ecumenical Protestantism’s Battle for Hearts and Knees – By James Hudnut-Beumler
James Hudnut-Beumler on David A. Hollinger’s After Cloven Tongues of Fire As late as 1960, more than half of all adult Americans belonged
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Prayers amidst Parodies and Empty Praisesongs – By Luke Johnson
Luke Johnson on Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson, Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry I never lost as much but twice,
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Mary Flannery, Green and Golden – By Bryan Giemza
Bryan Giemza on Flannery O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal If A Prayer Journal were our only window into Flannery O’Connor’s thoughts in her early twenties, what
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How We Choose to Write History
David Nirenberg responds to the Forum on Anti-Judaism We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate
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Anti-Semitism and the Evolving Catholic Conscience
Martin Menke on John Connelly’s From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews New histories of the Shoah provoke
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Capturing the Paradox of Distaste and Desire – By Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone on Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism The editors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers identify Flannery O’Connor as their
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McMansions, Megachurches, and Meaning
Deborah Justice on Justin Wilford’s Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism The town square — complete with churches, shops, and public buildings
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How Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy Helped to Invent the South – By Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone on Bryan Giemza’s Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South In “Parker’s Back,” the titular character decides to get
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How did America’s Political Rhetoric Become so Biblical? – By Robert E. Brown
Robert E. Brown on James Byrd’s Sacred Scripture, Sacred War and Eran Shalev’s American Zion Martin Luther King, Jr. was the last great orator
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