Review
The Clash Between Religious Freedom and Equality Law
It’s easy, in the current American political climate, to see religious freedom and LGBT rights as two opposing values, permanently in conflict with each other.
By Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Review
Communal Living and its Discontents
Briallen Hopper revisits her personal history with communes as she reviews Ellen Wayland-Smith’s “Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table.”
By Briallen Hopper
Review
The Mormon Council of Fifty: What Joseph Smith’s Secret Records Reveal
In 1844, the Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith surrendered himself to state authorities after destroying an anti-Mormon printing press in Nauvoo, Illinois. When he was sent …
By Benjamin E. Park
Review
To Serve God and Mammon
The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream by Chris Lehmann Melville House, 2016 Last year, the aptly named Pastor Creflo Dollar, …
By Gordon Haber
Review
What Happened to the Jesus People?
Evangelical hippies in the 1970s were known for flashing their “one-way” sign—an index finger pointing upward that signaled an alternative to the counter-cultural peace sign …
By Mark Hulsether
Review
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 Cadge
Review
Spotlight is this Generation’s All the President’s Men
Spotlight, the film released on Friday, appears at first glance to be a scripted homage. The movie offers a fictionalized portrayal of the Boston Globe’s …
By Mara Willard
Review
Mad Men and the Enlightenment of Don Draper
The pleasures of Mad Men were many. Fans of the recently concluded AMC series about advertising in the 1960s obsessed over the meticulous detail of …
By Matthew S. Hedstrom
Review
Terrorism in the Age of the Internet
The Devil’s Long Tail: Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace by David Stevens and Kieron O’Hara Oxford University Press, 2015 Issue #12 of Inspire magazine …
By Michael Schulson
Review
Marilynne Robinson in Montgomery
Marilynne Robinson’s new novel Lila has been greeted with rapture—not just by critics but also by a host of readers who rely on Robinson for …
By Briallen Hopper