...blogs are neither churches nor parachurch ministries, they should be free from congregational supervision—even when they are writing about issues concerning their denomination’s view of doctrine. If this view is...
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Law's Religion
Keeping up with “culture”
by J. Barton Scott...free of state interference is, paradoxically, to require the state to define “religion” so that it can determine which institutions and actors are to be afforded freedoms on the basis...
here & there
Petraeus, Military Anthropology, and Religion
by David Walker...to “fight for a small amount of freedom against such overwhelming odds,” but she fears that “their hopes will certainly be destroyed if and when the country returns to the...
here & there
Catholic bishops on religious liberty
by Wei Zhu...of the tensions between the USCCB and President Barack Obama’s administration. Calling religious liberty the “first freedom,” and more than just “freedom of worship,” the statement explains that: What is...
The Stillborn God
The rules of the games
by Mark Lilla...Instead, it takes the reader through the steps of a particular argument, one in which the confrontation between political theology and its modern philosophical adversary was particularly intense, the disputes...
Is this all there is
Swinging between enough and not enough
by Jonathan Schorsch
...(Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), ch. 8. Peggy Lee’s delivery of the narrative segues between the verses—about a childhood fire that consumed the speaker’s family home, seeing the circus with...
Notes from the field
Why I don’t read non-fiction from Barnes and Noble, and why that’s a problem for public scholarship; or, what I learned in third grade about epistemology and essentialization
by Jeffrey Guhin...the stuff that’s there—particularly in the social sciences section—is pretty basic, often uninteresting, and available for free (to me) in more rigorous form on JSTOR. Forgive me for being such...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Prayer, imagination, and the voice of God—in global perspective
by Steven Barrie-Anthony...and the like, how do you walk the line in your research between psychological reductionism where there is no such thing as God, and the reverse? TML: Well, I think...
Religion in the public sphere
Taking religion seriously
by Simone Chambers...religious idiom, the rift between religious and secular citizens will grow. Habermas implies that such rifts mean that political community will be more and more a matter of modus vivendi...