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Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of American Religious Nationalism
Scholars have variously depicted Thomas Jefferson as everything from a crypto-Unitarian with a deep love of Jesus to a priest-baiting infidel. My own view is …
By Sam Haselby
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The King’s Chapel and the King’s Court: Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, and White House Church Services
When Richard Nixon entered the White House, he brought his good friend Billy Graham with him. A constant presence and trusted adviser, the minister became, …
By Kevin M. Kruse
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No Politics in Church? Not So Fast.
American Christians are increasingly aware that the church has a political image problem, and are increasingly eager to repair it. Association with the Religious Right, …
By Sam Speers and Kristopher Norris
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The Past Imperfect of Barack Obama
Speaking at the ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches last month, President Obama posed a question that captured why many …
By Peter Manseau
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A Sunday Spent with Jimmy Carter
Southwest Georgia is Baptist country. The back roads heading south out of Columbus are bracketed by red soil, scruffy pines, and clapboard buildings sporting names …
By Randall Balmer
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Mission at Nuremberg: An Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
Wilhelm Keitel had been general field marshal, second only to Adolf Hitler in Germany’s military hierarchy. Now, on a cold, rainy October morning, at 1:00 …
By Tim Townsend
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Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, 150 Years Later
On November 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at the dedication of America’s first national cemetery, on the site of the battle that had turned the …
By Stephen Prothero
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Welcome to Zaytuna, the Nation’s First Muslim Liberal Arts College
On November 15, 2010, the morning I first visited Hamza Yusuf’s theology class at Zaytuna College, the nation’s first Muslim school of liberal arts, the …
By Scott Korb
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Religious Leaders to Government: We Must Get Our Fiscal House In Order
Both Republicans and Democrats have a religion problem, and it has nothing to do with same-sex marriage, abortion, or religious liberty. Rather, their serious stumbling …
By Jim Wallis
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Book Culture and the Rise of Liberal Religion
In 1904 the Quaker mystic and philosopher Rufus Jones published Social Law in the Spiritual World with a grand ambition. “The cure for skepticism,” Jones …
By Matthew S. Hedstrom