Ruth Braunstein revisits her 2019 essay on efforts to reframe the budget as a moral concern. Her work sheds light…
Revisited: Making budgets moral again
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We are living in a moment of intense anxiety about the fate of democracy around the world. Democratic institutions are…
Making budgets moral again
The release of the Poor People’s Moral Budget calls forth decades of efforts to reframe the budget as a moral…
Political myopia and prophetic vision
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Good troublemakers
Today, as political arrogance, partisan polarization, and information tribalism threaten to engulf our public life, it is crucial that we…
A crisis of political arrogance
In this series, scholars and practitioners attend to these varied ways in which religious individuals and groups engage in public…
The politics of national identity: Introduction
Religion is increasingly recognized as a defining feature of political life and as a constitutive element of individual and collective…
A conversation with Robert Bellah
Margarita A. Mooney interviews Robert Bellah at Patheos.
Interdisciplinary Congregational Studies Fellowships
An interdisciplinary call for applications for Congregational Studies Fellowships has been released.
When God Talks Back named a Notable Book of 2012
New Directions in the Study of Prayer Grantee Tanya Luhrmann’s book, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship…