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America’s Divisions and Scalia’s Christian Visions
As efforts are made to assess the legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last month, pundits have avoided discussing the one decision that stands …
By Nomi Stolzenberg
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Why We’re Not in a New Gilded Age
It’s not a new Gilded Age after all. For a number of years now, leading economists such as Thomas Piketty, Joseph Stiglitz, and Paul Krugman …
By Heath Carter
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The 2016 Presidential Campaign: The Past and Present of American Tolerance and Intolerance
American presidential politics are in the midst of a strikingly ecumenical, if not interfaith, moment. Both parties are fielding primary candidates with widely divergent spiritual …
By Charles Postel
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Ammon Bundy and the Paradoxes of Mormon Political Theologies
On Saturday, January 2, Ammon Bundy led a group of protesters in occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge Building outside of Burns, Oregon. An outgrowth of …
By Benjamin E. Park
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The God of Abraham Praise: Wheaton College Considers Its Muslim Neighbors
Few topics matter more to American evangelicals than religious identity. Who is my God? Who is my neighbor? What does it mean to follow Jesus? …
By John Schmalzbauer
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The Long American Tradition of Nativist Politics
Donald Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, possibly including U.S. citizens, produced immediate, and well deserved, condemnation from figures across …
By Robin Dale Jacobson
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Ben Carson, Science, and Seventh-day Adventists
P residential candidate Ben Carson’s scientific views might seem out of place for a renowned neurosurgeon. He is uncertain on global warming, opining to Bloomberg: …
By Ben Spackman
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Teaching Islam in the Age of ISIS
Last academic year, students at my college asked me to participate in two faculty panel discussions on current events: one on ISIS (also known as …
By Amina Steinfels
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Pope Francis Comes to Washington
As recently as the 1950s, it was gospel in certain liberal circles that Catholicism was, to take a leaf from Ben Carson, “inconsistent with the …
By Leslie Woodcock Tentler
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Kim Davis and the Anxieties of Christian America
Once released from her short stay in her county detention center, throngs of supporters greeted Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis with an energetic celebration. Davis …
By Benjamin E. Park