Practical Factors and Religious Belief – By Michael Pace
Michael Pace on Aaron Rizzieri’s Pragmatic Encroachment, Religious Belief, and Practice According to a recent Pew poll, the proportion of adults in the
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Augustine on Trial – Ron Haflidson
Ron Haflidson on Paul Rigby’s Theology of Augustine’s Confessions A friend of mine refers to her favorite thinkers of the departed white male
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Gothic on Trial – By James Alexander Cameron
James Alexander Cameron on Stephen Murray’s Plotting Gothic and Jonathan Foyle’s Lincoln Cathedral “Gothic.” Originally coined as a term of exclusion — things
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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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MRBlog | There is no precedent for Donald Trump — and that is what makes him so scary
By Thomas J. Whitley There is no precedent for Donald Trump. Much that has been written since Trump accepted the Republican nomination
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The Dictionary is Holy – By James Chapin
The book lords over my living room. A shelf sags under its weight of ink and wood-pulp. Inside are pages the size of
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Sarah Dees on The Materialization of Native American Religions
Nineteenth-century anthropological research on Native Americans communities still shapes how we understand them today. Kristian Petersen talks with Sarah Dees, Lecturer in Religious
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MRBlog | America, Dystopia
By Thomas J. Whitley As we enter another week, many are trying to make sense of the last week, which brought us the
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Impolite Conversation #13: Using the Bible in Political Debate
In this month’s episode we talk with Frances Flannery, co-editor of the forthcoming book, The Bible in Political Debate: What Does It Really
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For All That Is Good and Holy: Reclaiming Religion for the Black and Latinx Victims of the #PulseOrlando Massacre by Elizabeth Pérez
What happened in Orlando was an act of desecration no less than terror. There has been no avoiding the stories, even for those
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