What's the number one bestseller on Amazon.com? Give up? As of May 20, 2010, it was George Washington's Sacred Fire…
Glenn Beck’s history book club
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Higher times in the Bible Belt
Rich in interdisciplinary breadth, Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age offers an opportunity to reflect on the reception of…
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…
‘What funeral?’ A response to Eddie Glaude
Eddie Glaude's proclamation that "The Black Church is Dead" has had a vast ripple-effect across the Web. Recently, Candice Benbow,…
Lecture: Michael Warner on “Sex and Secularity” at NYU
On Thursday evening, Michael Warner will give the annual LeBoff Lecture at New York University, for which he will draw…
“The Death and Life of the Black Church”
At Bloggingheads.tv, Eddie Glaude, Jr. and Josef Sorett discuss what it means to be black and Christian in the present,…
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…
Not a book about Jesus
At Haaretz, David B. Green interviews Scott Korb, author of the forthcoming Life in Year One: What the World Was…
The ethics of proselytism
At On Faith this week, "the question" is whether religious groups proselytizing overseas amounts to "religious freedom" or to "coercion."
So close and yet so far
“The sound rose up and spread across the rooftops of the old city, a deep, guttural, Biblical sound---the sound of…