Christianity

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/1/2020
  

  White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

  At an earlier point in American history, some Christian theologians went so far as to argue that the enslavement of human beings was justifiable from a biblical point of view.

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Trump and the Puritans

  by Martyn Whittock

  No one would ever call Donald Trump a Puritan. But the 17th century religious movement is a foundation of Trump's America.

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• SOURCE: Christianity Today
  5/13/2020
  

  What Ahmaud Arbery’s Death Recalls About Lynching and Church History

  How and why these killings—and Christians’ responses to them—changed over the centuries.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/20/2020
  

  Christian Groups That Resist Public-Health Guidelines Are Forgetting a Key Part of the Religion's History

  by Matthew Gabriele

  Scholars have shown that a large part of Christianity’s attraction in the Roman world was that it cared for the welfare of the people who were suffering.

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• 4/19/2020
  

  Evangelicals, Donald J. Trump, and the Making of the Tribune in Chief

  by Paul Croce

  Even Donald Trump's harshest critics would do well to understand his powerful appeal to white evangelical Christians instead of simply complaining about it. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/25/2020
  

  The Cult of the Shining City Embraces the Plague

  by Jared Yates Sexton

  Those who see Trump as a messianic figure believe the coronavirus will put a fallen world right again.

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• SOURCE: ABC Religion and Ethics
  3/30/2020
  

  Coping With Coronavirus Disappointments: Five Lessons From Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  For a case study in coping with disappointment in the context of isolation and social distancing, we find a surprising source of help in Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/27/2020
  

  The Religious Right’s Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response

  by Katherine Stewart

  Trump’s response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of his ultraconservative religious allies.

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• 3/6/2020
  

  A Founder of American Religious Nationalism

  by Katherine Stewart

  Christian nationalism today is a political movement, and its primary goal is power. Its ultimate aim, formulated by R.J. Rushdoony, is to replace our modern constitutional Republic with a “biblical” order that derives its legitimacy not from the people but from God and the Bible – or, at least, the God and the Bible that men like Rushdoony claimed to know.

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• 12/8/19
  

  Jack Miles' God in the Qur’an brings the three Abrahamic traditions to the table

  by Zaman Stanizai

  We cannot force someone to hear a message they are not ready to receive, but we must never underestimate the power of planting a seed.

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• 11/26/19
  

  Bodhisattvas and Saints

  by Ed Simon

  St. Josaphat is a particularly remarkable Roman Catholic saint, for he’s normally known by a rather different title – the Buddha. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/30/19
  

  Globally, many evangelicals lean left: What that means for America’s future

  by David C. Kirkpatrick

  Conservatism isn’t the only option for religious voters.

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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.