MRBlog | Jeb Bush Tells Pope Francis to Leave the Politics to Him
By Thomas J. Whitley The Vatican released the long awaited papal encyclical on climate change today, Laudato Si. We have known the broad
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First Impressions #38: Chris Beneke and Christopher Grenda
Art Remillard talks with Chris Beneke and Christopher Grenda about their new edited volume, The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger
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MRBlog | No, Religion Is Not Disappearing
By Thomas J. Whitley This week in “How Can I Use the Pew Research Center’s Latest Religious Landscape Survey Data to Make A
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MRBlog | What Can We Learn From Christian Hip Hop That Supports Ted Cruz?
By Thomas J. Whitley Combine conservative politics, apologetics, and wannabe Christian hip hop and you get We Are Watchmen, a group “that uses
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The Skeptic’s Smart-Person Problem – By Ryan T. Woods
Ryan T. Woods on intelligence and religious belief Why are religious beliefs so common among the masses, yet so rare among intellectuals? Meditating on this question,
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Displaced Anxiety: Medieval Christian Representations of the Jew and Christian Self-Reflection – By Deeana Klepper
Deeana Klepper on Sara Lipton’s Dark Mirror The past few years have seen a stunning increase in violent attacks directed against Jews and Jewish
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First Impressions #33: Benjamin Zeller and Marie Dallam
Dave Krueger talks with Benjamin Zeller and Marie Dallam about their new book Religion, Food, and Eating in North America. Dallam is an
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MRBlog | Indiana and The Economics of Religious Freedom
By Thomas J. Whitley On Monday the state of Indiana hired the public relations firm Porter Novelli. This will not come as
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On Life Without Heroes or Epiphanies, or: How I Came to Love Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” – By Andrew J. Beck
Andrew J. Beck on Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” I’ve read enough of Nick Hornby’s Songbook, the McSweeny’s spinoffs, and similar kinds of pieces
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst
Kristian Petersen talks with MRB’s editor of Modern Islamic History, Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, about British Imperialism, Jihad, and South Asian Muslims. She is Assistant Professor
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