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October 28, 2013

Sandra Roberts Makes Adventist History

Sandra Roberts on Sunday, Oct. 27, became the first woman to lead a Seventh-day Adventist...

October 28, 2013

Redefining Religion

It took the jury fewer than fifteen minutes to convict substitute teacher John Scopes of...

October 28, 2013

The Rise of Pop Culture in Religious Studies

If academic conferences and scholarly panels give a glimpse of books to come, then the...

October 28, 2013

Five Christian Theologies Scarier than Halloween

Halloween today isn’t all that Christian or all that scary any more. Our American celebration...

October 28, 2013

The Murky Matrix of Contemporary Ministry: Piety, Privilege and the #PreachersofL.A.-Pt.1

by Earle FisherR3 ContributorEarlier this week a pastor was being interviewed by a student who...

October 25, 2013

The Most Controversial Sentence I Ever Wrote

The most controversial sentence I ever wrote, considering the response to it, was not about...

October 25, 2013

How New Religions Are Made

Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religionsby Jacob S. DormanOxford University Press, 2013What...

October 25, 2013

Top Five Posts for the Week of October 19-25, 2013

Here are the top five posts from Rhetoric Race and Religion this week. To contribute...

October 24, 2013

The US Civil War as a Theological War: Confederate Christian Nationalism and the League of the South

Formed in Alabama in 1994, the League of the South is a nationalist organization that...

October 24, 2013

Poor Mellie Is Leah…Not Saint Olivia Pope

What we know for sure is that Jacob never wanted Leah in the first place. ...

October 22, 2013

Religious Racism: Are ‘Good’ Christians More Racist Than Others?

My perspective is that of one who worked in the church for 40+ years, and...

October 22, 2013

The Bible Paradox

Nearly 80 percent of all Americans think the Bible is either literally true or is...

October 22, 2013

Ja Rule On Finding God At Hillsong Church

October 22, 2013

Ted Cruz’s Father Suggested His Son Is ‘Anointed’ to Bring About ‘End Time Transfer of Wealth’

In a sermon last year at an Irving, Texas, megachurch that helped elect Ted Cruz to the...

October 22, 2013

The Forgotten Preacher: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

by Andre E. JohnsonR3 EditorHenry McNeal Turner, the first black chaplain in the Union Army...

October 21, 2013

Churches Don’t Feed People, People Feed People

The government shutdown has sparked a new wave of talk decrying the unnecessary functions of...

October 21, 2013

Malala, the Muslim Feminist

In 2007, Somali-born Dutch author Ayaan Hirsi Ali published "Infidel," an autobiography that documented her...

October 21, 2013

A Time for Burning: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Omaha

In 1966, Lutheran Film Associates did something surprising. They commissioned and publicly released A Time for...

October 21, 2013

Religion in America

Two of the most frustrating recent topics on talk radio have been the risk of...

October 20, 2013

New Book: Courage Under Fire: Guarding the Romantic Flame from Life’s Fiery Issues

Rev. Dr. Eugene Gibson, Senior Pastor at the Olivet Fellowship Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee,...

October 18, 2013

Bulletin for the Study of Religion 42.3 (September 2013)

The September issue of the Bulletin has been published and is available in both print and electronic versions....

October 18, 2013

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

Religions are richly variable in their organizations, belief systems, rituals, and practices. This is true...

October 18, 2013

Why Religion Should Not Try So Hard to Be Cool

Every September college students confront a myriad of student activity organizations, each competing for student...

October 18, 2013

“Love Your Neighbor as Yourself”: Failing Grade for Religious America

A 2012 University of Chicago study reveals that the U.S is among the five most religious...

October 18, 2013

No Church in the Wild: An Ontology of Hip Hop’s Socio-Religious Discoursein Tupac’s “Black Jesuz”

by Daniel White HodgeR3 ContributorHip Hop is a voice: a voice that openly speaks for...

October 18, 2013

Doing It. (Or Religious Masturbation): A Rhetorical Autoethnography of Identity Negotiation

I may have to repent after writing what some may consider a theological text. To...

October 17, 2013

Is The #BlackChurch Ready for the #PreachersofLA?-Pt.2

By Kimberly Peeler-RingerR3 ContributorRead Part 1 hereNeedless to say, it was a bit awkward to...

October 17, 2013

Study of Religion Approved as Graduate Degree

The Graduate Group in the Study of Religion has received final approval from the Office...

October 17, 2013

The Religious Right Is a Fraud

Last week, the nation’s capital was host to Value Voters 2013 Summit, a three-day political...

October 17, 2013

Religious Liberty and Evangelical Identity Politics

Last Thursday Baptist ethicist Russell Moore made a case for religious liberty in a way that perhaps...

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