Salem 66: Dispatch #1 – September 7-13, 2015
Don Jolly covers the religion of the 2016 election season. Continue Reading →
Tag: Religion and Politics
Daily Links: We Scratched Your Back Edition
Schradle’s list of must reads for the week. Continue Reading →
Daily Links: 'Bout Time Edition
Ross gets it right? The Revealer has made no secret of its feelings on much of Times columnist Ross Douthat’s work in the past, but his article about the recent Continue Reading →
Daily Links: ‘Bout Time Edition
Ross gets it right? The Revealer has made no secret of its feelings on much of Times columnist Ross Douthat’s work in the past, but his article about the recent Continue Reading →
Taboo Dinner Party Talk
Amy Levin: “Aren’t these topics the very ones your mother warned you never to raise at a dinner party?” asks Marie Griffith, editor of the new online magazine, Religion & Politics. With its boasted tagline, “Fit for Polite Company,” Griffith, the current director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, says in her editor’s note that the journal’s aim is to address one of the most “contested issues of our time:” the role religion plays in U.S civic and political life. Continue Reading →
The Changing Court
Ann Neumann: John Paul Stevens retires. Read James Toobin’s profile of the Supreme Court justice from last month at the New Yorker here. Read Sarah Posner’s post on religion and the Continue Reading →
Out for Stupak
Ann Neumann: Fewer Friends: Bart Stupak (D-Mich) who reclined in relative anonymity in the House until last November when he wrote an amendment with Joe Pitts (R-PA) to prevent any of the Continue Reading →
Religion Litmus Test for the Court?
Ann Neumann: Don’t miss Sarah Posner’s post on religion and the Supreme Court justices, an issue that comes to the fore as John Paul Stevens approaches retirement. Six of the current nine Continue Reading →
Not My Tax Dollars
Ann Neumann: A change to the Florida constitution — which has just passed committee and will be voted on in November — would end a ban that has existed since Continue Reading →
Religious Freedom in Romania
31 January 2006 Forum 18 reports that a controversial Romanian religion bill set for debate tomorrow has minority religious groups (including evangelicals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Adventists, Baptists and other Protestants, Greek Catholics and Baha’is) Continue Reading →