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A Theme Park, a Scandal, and the Faded Ruins of a Televangelism Empire

If you happen to find yourself on I-77 just south of Charlotte, North Carolina, consider a detour to the crumbling ruins of what used to …

By Emily Johnson

Essay

Atheists in Foxholes: The Military Chaplaincy’s Humanist Problem

Do American military chaplains need to believe in God? Or, as the Navy Times once asked, “Who supports the atheists in the military?” These questions …

By Ronit Y. Stahl

Profile

Meet Chad Connelly, the Republican Party’s Faith Ambassador

On a Thursday morning in early September, a handful of Louisiana pastors gathered at a Baptist church on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain to …

By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Essay

The Sources of Creationism’s Disjointed Science

Once upon a time, in the West, sacred history, human history, and natural history were one. The Hebrew Bible, refracted through the prism of the …

By Elizabeth Yale

Report

Passages: A Glimpse into the Hobby Lobby Family’s Bible Museum

On a humid afternoon in early July, I pulled into the parking lot of a nondescript warehouse just off Highway 65 in Springfield, Missouri. Flanked …

By Rachel McBride Lindsey

Review

Us v. Them: The Pitfalls of Righteous Rhetoric

Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America By Leslie Dorrough Smith Oxford University Press, 2014 On June 19 of this year, the …

By Emily Johnson

Essay

For Michael Brown, Justice Is Not a Gift. It’s a Right.

“This whole Michael Brown thing,” a local white business owner informed me, “is a case of reverse racism!” The Saint Louis native continued, “Those people …

By Lerone A. Martin

Report

The Religious Roots of the Wilderness Act

When Howard Zahniser was drafting the Wilderness Act—which marks its 50th anniversary today—he confided to a colleague that he wished he were writing poetry instead. …

By Michael Schulson