One Cheer for Civil Religion
I’ve had a long adversarial relationship with American civil religion. It began with all those invocations I heard as a teenager in the mid-‘60s that
James Bratt
July 3, 2015
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I’ve had a long adversarial relationship with American civil religion. It began with all those invocations I heard as a teenager in the mid-‘60s that
As a theologian I tend to focus on more contemporary thinkers. Not that I’ve ignored the others—I enjoyed my Patristic and Medieval theology courses the most.
Fourth of July festivities, where I live, have already begun. The shocking and randomly timed booms of consumer fireworks remind me that I’m not in
It’s been two weeks now since the massacre at Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. church. Two weeks of learning just how apt the name Emanuel is for
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By Helen Luhrs When my mom died this winter, I realized the generation of my parents was gone. What I learned from them about faith
Before the terrible shooting in Charleston on June 17, there was no Wikipedia page for the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Over the next 36
I am no expert, no theologian, no art historian; but for what it’s worth, I think Tintoretto had it right because the scene must have