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Ferguson Congregations "Lay It On the Table," Taking a Step Toward Honest Dialogue -- Rick Nutt
on Sunday, November 30, a remarkable and hopeful event happened without fanfare. ...
December 4, 2014
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Malaise in Europe -- Martin E. Marty
Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, some Americans remembered the religious and not-wholly-commercial base of this national holiday. The religious element bade citizens to look backward with thanks and forward with a spirit of newness and resolve. Yesterday,...
December 1, 2014
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On Thanksgiving Day, Remember Fast Day -- Dean Grodzins
Americans have forgotten Fast Day, although it once was as important a holiday as Thanksgiving. In fact, it was paired with Thanksgiving and considered its necessary complement. Thanksgiving and Fast Day originated together in colonial New Englan...
November 27, 2014
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Income and Wealth Inequality: Why Religion's Current Efforts Won't Cut It
When religious institutions turn their attention to legislation, legal codes, and regulations, they can effect change....
November 20, 2014
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Thinking Religion and Democracy in Dark Times -- Corey D. B. Walker
For many scholars and commentators, religion represents a unique challenge to democratic politics...
November 13, 2014
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Jewish Millennials and Co.
Unaffiliated, unreachable, unmoved, unfazeable younger Americans, aged 18-23 in some cases, or “millennials” in others, have been in our sights this season as we observe religious trends. ...
November 10, 2014
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Religion, Class, and Denominationalism in the US
Ever since H. Richard Niebuhr’s book The Social Sources of Denominationalism (1929) there has been evidence that religious affiliation and class status are somehow connected....