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Religion & Politics Wins Enterprise Religion Report of the Year
At the annual Religion Newswriters Association awards in September, Religion & Politics and Managing Editor Tiffany Stanley took home first place for the Gerald A. Renner Enterprise Religion Report …
By The Editors
Essay
TOMS Shoes and the Spiritual Politics of Neoliberalism
Here they are, smiling and crying, the words catching in their throats as they place tiny shoes to the feet of tiny children. Seven strangers, …
By Lucia Hulsether
Report
The Vatican’s New Clothes: Very Small Embryonic-Like Cells and Faith in Evidence Not Seen
Once upon a time, and not so long ago, the scientific world beheld a new kind of cell that, when captured at just the right …
By Ann Neumann
Essay
Spike Lee’s “4 Little Girls” and the Aftershocks of the Birmingham Church Bombing
I was watching Spike Lee’s documentary 4 Little Girls when the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case was handed down. An alert flashed on my …
By Briallen Hopper
Essay
On Anti-Semitic Tropes and the Naming of the Federal Reserve Chair
In a scene from the 2010 film The Social Network, the actor who portrays Larry Summers brushes off the WASPy Winklevoss twins, who come to …
By Rachel Gordan
Report
How a Nun Turned a Monastery Garage into a Global Catholic News Network
In March of 1978, a 55-year-old cloistered nun named Mother Angelica went to Chicago. She was there to give workshops to supporters who would distribute …
By Renée K. Gadoua
Essay
“I Have a Dream”: The 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Famous Speech
The Lincoln Memorial may be the most iconic place in the United States. Americans go there alone or with friends and family members to remember …
By Stephen Prothero
Essay
Remembering Robert Bellah
Where do we come from and go to? What are we here for? No one wrestled and played more deeply with these questions than did …
By Steven M. Tipton
Report
The New Jim Crow: Churches Respond to Mass Incarceration
A t 5 p.m. on a Sunday in April, the air crisp and cool, community members began congregating in an open plaza outside the public library …
By Alfredo Garcia
Profile
Bill Cain: A Jesuit Playwright Explores War and Redemption
In April 2010, Father Robert Ver Eecke welcomed fellow Jesuit priest and playwright Bill Cain to a public forum at Boston College (BC). Modeled on …
By Robert Israel