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Does God Hate Shrimp? When Biblical Citation Goes Awry
One of the most popular “West Wing” clips on YouTube is President Josiah Bartlet’s biblically-based takedown of a conservative radio talk-show host (a thinly veiled …
By Emily A. Filler
Interview
The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: An Interview with Charles Marsh
On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Christian theologian who opposed the Nazis, was hanged by the regime on the grounds of a concentration …
By Tiffany Stanley
Essay
Why Anti-Vaccination Movements Can Never Be Tamed
In Victorian England, nearly a century after the physician Edward Jenner had shown that exposure to the cowpox virus, or vaccinia, conferred immunity to smallpox, …
By Elizabeth Yale
Essay
Hobby Lobby, Wheaton College, and a New Religious Order
Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court handed down its much-awaited decision in Hobby Lobby, holding that closely held business corporations are “persons” endowed with religious …
By Sarah Barringer Gordon and Nomi Stolzenberg
Report
Remembering the Rebbe
On a summer night in Crown Heights, thousands of Hasidic Jews sit on plastic, fold-out chairs to watch a projected recording of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, …
By Sam Kestenbaum
Essay
The Good News According to Hobby Lobby
On June 30, the world did not end. For all the drama and hype that the Hobby Lobby case has generated, the Supreme Court decision …
By Anna Su
Essay
Banishing Dissent: The Excommunication of Mormon Activist Kate Kelly
T housands of Mormons are grieving the excommunication of Kate Kelly this week. Kelly is a human rights attorney who founded a group called …
By Kristine Haglund
Review
The Great Calvinist Reawakening
According to The New York Times, a Calvinist revival is sweeping through modern American evangelicalism. Among the evidence: church libraries are filling up with books …
By Briallen Hopper
Excerpt
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
Review
“Orange Is the New Black” and the Difficulty of Portraying Prison Religion
This Friday, Netflix is going to drop 13 new episodes of “Orange Is the New Black” in our queues, and we’ll find out if Piper …
By Xarissa Holdaway