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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 CarterEssay
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 PostelReview
Along the Edges of Faith: The Many Sectors of American Chaplains
Meg, a chaplain at an urban academic medical center, spoke often about hope in the time I spent shadowing and interviewing her for my book …
By Wendy CadgeEssay
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. ParkInterview
Confronting Religious Violence: An Interview with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
On November 3, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks gave a lecture at Washington University in St. Louis based on his most recent book, Not in God’s …
By Jack WestEssay
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 SchmalzbauerEssay
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 JacobsonReport
Donald Trump and the Evangelical Vote
Donald Trump’s November 16 rally in Knoxville began with a conversion story. The opening speaker was Beada Corum, a 92-year-old local woman who had never …
By Emily JohnsonReport
Climate Change and the Legacy of Thomas Merton
“I love the nature that is all around me here,” Catholic monk, author, and social activist Thomas Merton wrote from his Kentucky hermitage one cold …
By M. Sophia NewmanInterview
Terror in Paris: The Plight of France’s Muslim Community
A fter the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, R&P interviewed Jonathan Laurence, a political scientist who studies the politics of Islam in the West, particularly …
By The Editors