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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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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First Impressions #86: Moustafa Bayoumi on This Muslim American Life
We live in a “War on Terror” culture, which ascribes a malevolent aspect to all things Muslim. How has this affected the lives of
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Impolite Conversation #12: Politics and Theology at the Cinema
Alyssa Rosenberg of the Washington Post talks to us about the political and religious messages that may (or may not) be lurking in
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Impolite Conversation #11: Fracturing of the Christian Right and the Religious “Gender Gap”
This month we talk to Carin Robinson, co-author of Onward Christian Soldiers:? The Religious Right in American Politics, about the current state of the
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Impolite Conversation #10: Islamophobia and What to Do About It
In this month’s episode, Tim Hill and Dan Clanton speak with Todd Green of Luther College about his new book, The Fear of Islam: An
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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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First Impressions #72: Seth Dowland on Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right
“Family values” is more than a political slogan. It’s a core feature in the identity of conservative evangelicals born from a response to
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Killable Monks and Socialist Sovereignty – By Matthew W. King
Matthew W. King on Christopher Kaplonski’s The Lama Question In December 1911, Khalkha Mongol Buddhist monks and nobility met in secret to declare
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Kevin Kruse Responds to the Forum
Kevin M. Kruse in the One Nation Under God Forum ※ See the Forum’s homepage here. ※ I am deeply grateful to these four scholars
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