Last week, the prime minister of Lower Saxony, a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), replaced several ministers in…
The crucifix controversy and the contradictions of German secularism
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Beck, Falwell and “Christian America”
Back in 2004, evangelical educator Richard Mouw brought a message of friendship and reconciliation to Mormon America, speaking to a…
Lived religion, British-style?
Over at the British weekly The Observer, Peter Stanford reviews Is God Still an Englishman?, the latest from Cole Moreton.
A right to home-school?
At Miller-McCune, Michael Scott Moore reports on a German family that was granted asylum by a federal immigration judge in…
Religion and violence in the early church
The ever prolific American historian Philip Jenkins recently published yet another book, The Jesus Wars, which deals with the issue…
The Kenyan constitution and the failure of Pan-African theology
In The Zeleza Post, Wandia Njoya comments on the upcoming referendum on a new constitution in Kenya, where the Christian…
Talk: architecture, technology, and “mediated congregation”
Tomorrow at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge, Erica Robles will present "The Crystal Cathedral Megachurch: Architecting the Rise…
Serving the master
Religion Dispatches reviews Lake Lambert's Spirituality, Inc.: Religion in the American Workplace (NYU Press, 2009).
Was early America a Christian America?
The furious debate in some quarters over whether America was born a “Christian nation” is ironic. The historical record shows…
Radical Orthodoxy’s new home?
This past November, a new think tank called ResPublica was launched in London, in the opulent surrounds of the Royal…