Culture
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
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
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
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
Essay
Russia and the Crimean Tatars: The Burdens and Challenges of History
The Russian annexation of Crimea has raised a host of important questions about the fate of the diverse populations on the peninsula. Will Ukrainian-speakers be …
By Eric Lohr
Report
A Short History of Christian Matchmaking
In 1904, The New York Times picked up an unusual story from Omaha. A wealthy Nebraska rancher named James Snell had requested the help of …
By Paul Putz
Interview
Obama and the Paradoxes of Progressive Christianity: An Interview with James Kloppenberg
On March 27-29, scholars gathered in St. Louis, Missouri, at the Danforth Center on Religion & Politics for the conference “Beyond the Culture Wars: Recasting …
By Tiffany Stanley
Essay
What the Show Cosmos Gets Wrong about Religion—and Science
In its third episode, titled “When Knowledge Conquered Fear,” the new Cosmos reboot, hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, tells the story of the discovery …
By Elizabeth Yale
Review
Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Juliane Hammer reviews Denise A. Spellberg’s new book, Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders.
By Juliane Hammer