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As Far From Heaven as Possible
How Henry Wadsworth Longfellow interpreted Reconstruction by translating Dante.
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Ed Simon
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
October 4, 2021
Making Sense of Heaven’s Gate
An excerpt from the new anthology, “American Cult.”
by
Robyn Chapman
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The Nib
on
August 2, 2021
Critical Race Theory is Just the Latest Battle
A new book shows how southern evangelicals looked to the Bible to justify their opposition to racial integration.
by
Christopher D. Cantwell
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Religion Dispatches
on
July 7, 2021
How Early Americans Narrated Disease
Early Americans coped with disease through narratives that found divine providence and mercy in suffering.
by
Philippa Koch
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Zócalo Public Square
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July 6, 2021
Looking for Nat Turner
A new creative history comes closer than ever to giving us access to Turner’s visionary life.
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Alberto Toscano
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Boston Review
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June 29, 2021
New England Kept Slavery, But Not Its Profits, At a Distance
Entangled with, yet critical of, colonial oppression and the evils of slavery, the true history of Boston can now be told.
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Mark A. Peterson
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Aeon
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May 3, 2021
The Pilgrims' Attack on a May Day Celebration Was a Dress Rehearsal for Removing Native Americans
The Puritans had little tolerance for those who didn't conform to their vision of the world.
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Peter C. Mancall
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The Conversation
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April 29, 2021
QAnon and the Satanic Panics of Yesteryear
What they can teach us about what to expect.
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Daniel N. Gullotta
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The Bulwark
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February 25, 2021
How America Keeps Adapting the Story of the Pilgrims at Plymouth to Match the Story We Need to Tell
The word “Plymouth” may conjure up visions of Pilgrims in search of religious freedom, but that vision does not reflect reality.
by
Peter C. Mancall
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TIME
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December 17, 2020
The Most American Religion
Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis.
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McKay Coppins
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The Atlantic
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December 16, 2020
Signs and Wonders
Reading the literature of past plagues and suddenly seeing our present reflected in a mirror.
by
Francine Prose
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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September 14, 2020
Racism Among White Christians is Higher Than Among the Nonreligious. That's no Coincidence.
For most of American history, the light-skinned Jesus conjured up by white congregations demanded the preservation of inequality as part of the divine order.
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Robert P. Jones
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NBC News
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July 28, 2020
How Jesus Became White — and Why It’s Time to Cancel That
Nearly a century later, both ‘Head of Christ’ and criticism of its role in enshrining Jesus as white endure.
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Emily McFarlan Miller
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Religion News Service
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June 25, 2020
No Justice, No Peace
To understand the slogan's meaning, consider the words of Martin Luther King, who saw the riots of the 1960s as not revolutionary enough.
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Asad Haider
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Viewpoint Magazine
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June 4, 2020
Daniel Webster, Yankee National Conservative
What 'the forgotten man of American conservatism' has to say about current debates on the right.
by
Joseph S. Laughon
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The American Conservative
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May 12, 2020
The Science of Abolition
On Hosea Easton’s and David Walker’s attempts to debunk scientific racism.
by
Lynne Feeley
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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March 4, 2020
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A Founder of American Religious Nationalism
On Rousas Rushdoony's political thought and lasting influence on the Christian right.
by
Katherine Stewart
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HNN
on
March 3, 2020
How Civil Rights Leader Wyatt Tee Walker Revived Hope After MLK's Death
In a sermon two weeks after MLK's funeral, Walker urged young seminarians to be hopeful and take action for making change happen. His sermon has valuable lessons today.
by
Corey D. B. Walker
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The Conversation
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February 25, 2020
"City on a Hill" and the Making of an American Origin Story
A now-famous Puritan sermon was nothing special in its own day.
by
Abram C. Van Engen
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
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February 18, 2020
Lynching Preachers: How Black Pastors Resisted Jim Crow and White Pastors Incited Racial Violence
Religion was no barrier for Southern lynch mobs intent on terror.
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Malcolm Brian Foley
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The Conversation
on
February 10, 2020
A Genderless Prophet Drew Hundreds of Followers Long Before the Age of Nonbinary Pronouns
The story of Jemima Wilkinson, otherwise known as the Public Universal Friend.
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Samantha Schmidt
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Washington Post
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January 5, 2020
How Should We Remember the Puritans?
In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.
by
Andrew Delbanco
via
The Nation
on
November 18, 2019
The Christian History of Korean-American Adoption
How World Vision and Compassion International sparked an Oregon family to raise eight mixed-race children.
by
Soojin Chung
via
Christianity Today
on
October 9, 2019
The Slow Build Up to the American Revolution
American revolutionaries had a far wider range of reasons for supporting rebellion than we often assume.
by
T. H. Breen
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Literary Hub
on
September 23, 2019
Sanctuary and the City
Since the 1980s, activists in Philadelphia have argued that the city has always been a refuge for asylum seekers.
by
Domenic Vitiello
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The Metropole
on
March 6, 2019
Frederick Douglass, Abolition, and Memory
On Douglass’s monumental life, the voice of the biographer, memory and tragedy, and why history matters right now.
by
David W. Blight
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Martha Hodes
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Public Books
on
November 26, 2018
The Double Battle
A review of David Blight's new biography of Frederick Douglass.
by
Eric Foner
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The Nation
on
October 24, 2018
Southern Baptists, Gender Hierarchy, and the Road to Trump
Many Southern Baptists in the 1970s supported abortion rights and gender equality. What happened?
by
R. Marie Griffith
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
on
July 10, 2018
Evangelical Fear Elected Trump
The history of evangelicalism in America is shot through with fear—but it also contains an alternative.
by
John Fea
via
The Atlantic
on
June 24, 2018
Trumpism, Realized
To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.
by
Adam Serwer
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The Atlantic
on
June 20, 2018
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