Christianity

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• SOURCE: The New York Review of Books
  July 18, 2019
  

  Which Way to the City on a Hill?

  by Marilynne Robinson

  A brief history of John Winthrop and the misconceptions of "A City on a Hill".

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• 3/31/19
  

  The Holocaust and the Christian World

  by Patrick Henry

  A new book offers reflections on the past of antisemitism and challenges for combatting it today. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/13/19
  

  Christian student challenged a school history lesson on Islam and lost in court

  As a high school junior, Caleigh Wood refused to complete a history lesson on “The Muslim World” that she said forced her to embrace Islam in conflict with her Christian faith — and the Constitution.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/13/19
  

  Lamin Sanneh, pioneering historian who studied Christianity’s spread, dies at 76

  The author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 scholarly articles, he focused primarily on Christian missions and missionaries, and on the church’s development into a diverse, international religion.

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• 11/4/18
  

  Christianity Is to Blame for the Bigoted Purposes to Which It’s Being Put, but ...

  by Steve Patterson

  There's evidence this was Christianity's original creed: "There is no Jew or Greek; there is no slave or free; there is no male and female, for you are all one.”

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  1-11-18
  

  Islam will be the second-biggest U.S. religion by 2040

  The data published last week by the Pew Research Center shows that Islam will surpass Judaism as the second biggest religion in the country, behind Christianity, within two decades.

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• 1/14/18
  

  God Awful Questions for Christianity that Are Apparently Unfit to Be Addressed in the New York Times

  by Philip Nobile

  Why?

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  11-28-17
  

  Age of Jesus Christ’s Purported Tomb Revealed

  Construction materials date to Roman times, suggesting the original holy site's legacy has survived despite its destruction 1,000 years ago.

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• SOURCE: Missouri S&T
  10-20-17
  

  Historian discovers early Reformation writings “hiding in plain sight”

  These writings, known as the Lausanne Theses, led to the expulsion of three prominent Lutheran ministers from the Swiss city of Bern in the mid-1500s, says Missouri University’s Michael W. Bruening.

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• SOURCE: The Post and Courier
  10-14-17
  

  Martin Luther: Reluctant reformer who rocked Christianity 500 years ago

  Five hundred years ago this month, Martin Luther set out to challenge his church and ended up starting what would become known as the Protestant Reformation.

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• 7-30-17
  

  What the Trump Presidency Reveals About American Christianity and Evangelicalism: An Interview with John Fea

  by Erik Moshe

  An interview with historian John Fea.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-17-17
  

  Trump threatens to change the course of American Christianity

  by John Fea

  It seems as though Christians are not changing Trump, but rather that Trump could be changing Christianity.

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• 9-23-16
  

  One Historian’s Questionable Use of the Founding Fathers

  by Brent J. Aucoin

  A critique of John Fea’s claim that the Founding Fathers objected to ministers serving in public office.

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• SOURCE: The American Interest
  2-23-15
  

  One Standard, Not Two, for Christianity and Islam

  by Jeffrey Herf

  The President spoke the truth recently when he said “terrible deeds” have been committed in the name of Christianity. We should be equally frank in saying that terrible deeds are now being committed in the name of Islam.

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• 2-12-15
  

  Distorting Christian History to Defend Islam

  Secularism didn’t save the West from religious excesses, and it won’t save us from jihadists.

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• 2-9-15
  

  President Obama, the National Prayer Breakfast, and Slavery

  by Joshua D. Rothman

  So vital was Christianity to the southern defense of slavery that some historians have estimated that ministers penned roughly half of all proslavery literature in the decades after 1830.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Divinity School
  1-29-15
  

  Harvard's Kevin Madigan's new approach to the history of Christianity

  In his narrative history of Christianity, 500 to 1500, he focuses on Christianity from the bottom up.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  2-7-15
  

  Why Obama is Right to avoid double standard about Modern Christian Atrocities

  by Juan Cole

  The outrage on the right about Obama’s entirely correct observations derives from a kind of Christian nationalism, in which Christians can do no wrong or are not responsible for the wrongs done by other Christians.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-5-15
  

  Critics lambast Obama for religious history lesson

  Obama compared the atrocities of the Islamic State to the bloodshed committed in the name of Christianity in centuries past.

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• SOURCE: Catholic Culture
  1-29-15
  

  On the failure of history—and historians—without Christ

  by Jeff Mirus

  "[T]hose who do not know Christ cannot write a complete history. But those who do not know the human person cannot write history at all."