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May 2014

May 08, 2014

By Grace Alone

In November 2012, Bob Jones University, the longtime flagship institution of fundamentalism, announced it had...

May 07, 2014

An Open Letter from a Secular Student of Religion

Hey, we've (probably) never met, but there's something that I'd like to get off my...

May 07, 2014

Not Just Profit: How Religion And Morality Helped Colonial America Become Capitalist

Mark Valeri knows more about the economic thinking of the century before the founders than...

May 07, 2014

With the Supreme Court’s Help, Religion Creeps Toward the State

Americans like to debate the “wall of separation” between church and state. Conservatives denounce it...

May 07, 2014

Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography

This provides an annotated bibliography of the Nigerian group Boko Haram. The bibliography doesn’t include newspaper or...

May 06, 2014

God’s Not Dead: A Film Review Essay

The Pure Flix Entertainment production God’s Not Dead has done remarkably well at the box office for...

May 06, 2014

Fifth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society

Fifth International Conference onReligion and Spirituality in SocietyUniversity of California at BerkeleyBerkeley, California, USA16-17 April...

May 06, 2014

Supreme Court Upholds Prayer at Government Meetings

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the centuries-old tradition of offering prayers at the start...

May 06, 2014

God Among the Religions

It’s not fashionable to talk about “the truth” in matters of religion. A popular objection...

May 06, 2014

For NBA Teams, Religion Can Be Unifying Or Divisive

Long before Doc Rivers found himself defending his Los Angeles Clippers players who were the...

May 05, 2014

Are Conservative Christians the New Queers?

Yesterday I wrote about the decline of anti-gay religion. The context was the recentFaith Angle conference at...

May 03, 2014

On Boko Haram, Missing Children, and Narcissism

This month I’ve watched as everyone talked about the mounting tension between the Ukraine and...

May 02, 2014

Sarah Palin’s Dying Breed of Christianity

Most people in their right minds consider Sarah Palin’s statement about using waterboarding to “baptize”...

May 02, 2014

Why Christians Should Support the Death Penalty??

The death penalty has been part of human society for millennia, understood to be the...

May 02, 2014

Welcome to R3: Miles S. Mullin II

Miles S. Mullin II is Associate Professor of Church History at the Houston campus of...

May 02, 2014

Rape Marriage in the Bible-by Dr. Wil Gafney

R3 friend Rev. Dr.Wil Gafney took to Twitter to give a "mini class" on "rape...

May 02, 2014

Botched Execution Could Slam Brakes on Death Penalty

Death penalty opponents and lawyers for condemned prisoners said the botched execution of a convicted...

May 02, 2014

A New Politics for Urban America: From Pittsburgh to Seattle, New York to Phoenix

Pittsburgh is the perfect urban laboratory,” says Bill Peduto, the city’s new mayor. “We’re small...

May 01, 2014

Barack Obama And The Paradoxes Of Progressive Christianity

Keynote lecture by James T. Kloppenberg on March 27, 2014, for the conference "Beyond the...

May 01, 2014

The Rev. Shively Smith Joins the Wesley Faculty as Professor of New Testament

On July 1, the Rev. Shively T. J. Smith will join the Wesley Theological Seminary faculty to...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Institutions need to be Born Again (a theology of institutional inclusion)

I suppose it’s easier to focus on the “goodness” and “preservation” of institutions when they...

April 30, 2014

The Creepy Way Fathers Across the Country Are Controlling Their Daughters’ Virginity

At this point, you're married to the Lord, and your father is your boyfriend." So...

April 30, 2014

What Now? Pregnancy Criminalization and Christian Leadership

by Alaenor LondonR3 ContributorDear Fellow Christian Faith Leaders in Tennessee: Yesterday, TN Governor Bill Haslam became...

April 30, 2014

Welcome to R3: Alaenor London

Alaenor London is a native of Memphis, TN. After completing undergraduate studies at the University...

April 30, 2014

#Race, #Racism and the Power of #Boycotts

by Andre E. JohnsonR3 EditorIn what would become his last public speech, Rev. Dr. Martin...

April 30, 2014

Sex, Millennials, and the Church: Five Implications

My son, Jess Rainer, and I conducted an extensive study of the Millennials, those persons...

April 30, 2014

God and Gays: A Conversation with Albert Mohler and Matthew Vines

It’s among the hottest of the hot button issues in American culture, but increasingly same-sex...

April 29, 2014

Taking Refuge in the Shadow of God’s Wings

by Peter GathjeR3 ContributorThis morning brought thunderstorms with heavy rain, thunder, and lightening. We opened...

April 29, 2014

Historic Riverside Church Recommends First Woman as Senior Minister

The famed Riverside Church in Manhattan has recommended the Rev. Amy Butler as its seventh...

April 27, 2014

Unleashing the Word: Freeing the Church from Biblical Studies

When I was in undergrad, one of the first courses I took in religious studies...

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