Randall Stephens Peter Marshall has long kept an active commentary page on his petermarshallministries.com site. He’s mad as hell and he’s not going to take it any more! (He seems to have been mad as hell for a for some time now, so this is not a news flash.) Marhsall is the author of The Light and the Glory , now revised, a Christian bookstore bestseller and a staple of homeschooling curriculum. (John Fea has written a cogent essay and several posts on Marshall and his career.) Marshall, along with another popular Christian historian David Barton, served as a history curriculum adviser for the Texas State Board of Education
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This Land is My Land, You Got That?
A Fractal is a unique form of nondenominational fellowship that has stripped every modern convention away from Christian worship. Based solely on individual connections, it’s essentially “church without church.” FaithInSA.com
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Worshippers strong on faith, but not church
Paul Harvey Randall beat me to the punch with his post on religion in the colonial South, and its relative importance as portrayed in recent scholarship as compared with its conventional role in older works as a foil for Yankee Puritanism.
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Religion in the Early South, Redux
Randall Stephens Rebecca Goetz and Lauren Winner have convinced me that historians have long had some ahistorical assumptions about the role of religion in colonial Virginia. (And, when many are teaching on a subject that is well out of their field–me included–they tend to dust off the old fables and retell them as fact.) Of course, there are glaring differences between the Mass Bay Colony and Virginia.
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Religion and the Founding of Virginia
Acclaimed vampire author and official nocturnal lady, Anne Rice, has denounced her relationship with Christianity via CNN.
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Anne Rice leaves Christianity… but was she ever there initially?
A store clerk talks religion with the man holding her up.
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Religion and the Robber
Ludhiana, Punjab: The Gutkas of Japji Sahib and Rehraas Sahib, which are revered in Sikh faith, are being disrespected by some people. They are making paper-bags for carrying groceries from paper of these Gutkas
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Gutkas published by Sikh Missionary College Ludhiana end up as paper bags
Gerardo Marti This week afforded me a bit of reading and reflection through Heidegger’s Being and Time as part of my ongoing attempt to grow in my scholarship. As an ethnographer, I regularly immerse myself in religious communities both short and long term — see a recent post at Duke Divinity blog about a recent church visit — and as such am regularly confronted with what was introduced to me as “ the insider/outsider problem of religion .” The dilemma centers around a core question: Who is best able to understand religion, the committed or the agnostic? More important, what are the challenges and solutions for achieving a satisfactory understanding of religion (not just for scholars, but for everyone) considering one’s stance
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Heidegger and the Quandary of Insider/Outsider Roles in Religious Research: A Methodological Note
Kelly J. Baker It’s summer, which means fiction and sunshine, but I am teaching summer session. This means less fiction and sunshine, and more of a focus on my own teaching style and what I cover
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Gender Me, Gender Religion
Randall Stephens Over at the Washington Post ‘s On Faith blog Anthony Stevens-Arroyo offers an interesting historical take on Catholicism and contemporary politics. For those faithful who are ready to pitch their tent with the Tea Party, he points to a 16th-century counter example: Jesuit priest Juan de Mariana (1536-1624). Stevens-Arroyo contrasts the radicalism of Mariana with Tea Party anti-statism
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Anthony Stevens-Arroyo on Catholics and the Tea Party