...for good and ill, an account that is supported by examples that are so hackneyed as to be not much more than scapegoating. For example, in discussing the best and...
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Keeping sex sexy: American evangelicalism and the problem of sexuality
by Rachel C. SchneiderDo Christians have the best sex? What kind of sex is best? And what does sex have to do with salvation? If you have ever wondered how evangelicals seek to...
here & there
What we cared about in 2008
by Nicole GreenfieldFive contributing editors of The Revealer round up some of 2008’s most interesting texts. From editor Jeff Sharlet: Annual “Best Book” lists should usually be read as a review of...
A Secular Age
Naive and reflective faiths
by Hent de Vries...between two standpoints: an “engaged” one in which we live as best as we can the reality our standpoint opens us to; and a “disengaged” one in which we are...
Resurrecting Democracy
Faithfully secular?
by Andrew ForsythCommunity organizing is faith-based, at least in its best-known form. Since the 1940s, organizers in the mold of Saul Alinsky have worked with local congregations and civic groups to identify...
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The Vatican Spring?
by Michele Dillon, John L. Esposito, Jeffrey Guhin, Cecelia Lynch, James Martin, SJ, J. Michelle Molina and Sarah Shortall...these teachings’ sometimes low priority make them the Church’s “best kept secret.” Because of his experience in the Global South and because his order vows to be loyal to the...
Reconsidering civil religion
Civil earth religion versus religious nationalism
by Bron Taylor...this trait is deeply rooted in our genome because it has adaptive or survival value. In any case, since the best known version of civil religion theory has focused on...
Rethinking secularism
Radical Orthodoxy’s new home?
by Matthew Engelke...of Peterhouse, Cambridge, in the 1990s, and is perhaps best known through the work of John Milbank (who taught Blond at Peterhouse). In recent years, Milbank has garnered attention outside...
Minding the Modern
Losing sight of reason
by Borja VilallongaThomas Pfau has created a brand new narrative, not a scholarly book. In the best Christian traditio renovanda (renewing tradition), Pfau’s narrative is an ambitious project to delve into the...
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