Killing the Buddha is featuring an excerpt from journalist Kathryn Joyce's new book, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement.
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Followers of Jesus
by Nicole GreenfieldLisa Miller reports on the newest label some nondenominational Christians are beginning to favor.
Augustine and the Jews
by Nathan SchneiderIn the New Republic, David Nirenberg has a review essay on a review essay Paula Fredriksen's new book, Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism:
Exploring the Post-Secular
by Nathan SchneiderOn April 3-4, Yale will be hosting a conference entitled "Exploring the Post-Secular," featuring the leading lights of contemporary discussion about secularism and religion in social theory, including number of contributors to The Immanent Frame.
Violence in the Bible and Qur’an
by Laura DuaneIn the Boston Globe, Philip Jenkins discusses the hypocrisy of those who characterize Islam as a violent faith, based on a few Qur'anical verses, without applying the same judgment to Christianity and the Bible.
A Catholic school turns secular
by Laura DuaneJavier C. Hernandez writes in the New York Times about the Trinidad Campus of Center City Public Charter Schools, formerly Holy Name Roman Catholic, and how the change from a Catholic school to a public charter school has affected the community.
An interview with Geert Wilders
by Laura DuaneGeert Wilders, a member of the Dutch Parliament, released "Fitna" in 2008, a controversial short film about the Qur'an and Islamist terror. Recently, Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe interviewed Wilders.
Tweets of faith
by Laura DuaneAt Religion Dispatches, Pauline Hope Cheong writes about how different religious groups are using Twitter, a microblogging system for messages of 140 characters or less.
Veiling as strength
by Laura DuaneAt AltMuslimah, Rebea Chaudhry discusses why American Muslim women choose to wear hijab or not.
God will provide—unless the government gets there first
by Ruth BraunsteinIn the Wall Street Journal, W. Bradford Wilcox updates and extends his earlier argument (discussed here and here at The Immanent Frame) concerning a link between the welfare state and the advance of secularism in the United States.