At Washington Monthly, Mariah Blake comments on the ongoing controversy over Texas's once-in-a-decade revision of its textbook standards. With standards for…
The strange case of Texas’s textbooks
Christianity
Giving up the Holy Ghost
Keane’s account is convincing, but it is important to contextualize the semiotic ideology he defines. I could be misreading Keane…
Why Ugandans embrace the Family
At New America Media, Edwin Okong'o suggests that the U.S. Christian Right has been successful in influencing the Ugandan anti-gay…
Dialogues concerning Hume and religion
On the January 4th edition of FOX News Sunday, Brit Hume gave this surprising advice to Tiger Woods in the wake…
Let’s talk about faith
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argues that "the debate that Brit Hume kicked off a week ago is still…
Reconstructing belief
I would like to continue the discussion of modernity and the problem of belief, which, like Danilyn Rutherford, I do…
Christians in prisons
In Books & Culture, Jason Byassee reviews a trio of books about prisons and their meaning for Christians.
Anti-Semitism in Lake Wobegon
For thirty-five years, Garrison Keillor has brought listeners into the village of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, the “town that time forgot, that…
Chinese Christians
At the Guardian, Mervyn Thomas contextualizes the recent Chinese government crackdowns on Christian worship.
Colonialism and conflict
If the idea of purification is to retain broad currency across the colonial landscape, it may need to be defined…