Paul Harvey Congratulations to our friend and Young Scholar in American Religion Kip Kosek, whose book Acts of Concience: Christian Nonviolence and American Democracy has won the Best First Book in the History of Religions Prize from the American Academy of Religion. Blog readers will recall we had some extensive discussions of this book last year (see the links for that below)
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Kip Kosek’s Acts of Conscience Wins AAR Award!
Randall Stephens Check out an article by Krista Tippett, of Speaking of Faith fame, on her conservative, Southern Baptist grandfather. The Christian Century essay powerfully deals with her changing views about her Oklahoma family’s faith. Many who have migrated from the South or Midwest–geographically and/or ideologically–have undergone similar changes in outlook
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A Pilgrimage of Faith for a Midwesterner
The Boston Theological Institute together with Bentley University, the Congregational Library and Park Street Church: Commemorating the Bicentennial of the ABCFM* “A Conference on America’s First Sponsor of Overseas Christian Missions” The Congregational Library and Park Street Church Saturday, September 25, 2010 – Day-long Program Includes – 8:30 AM Academic Symposium The Congregational Library, 14 Beacon Street, Boston 2:00 PM Historic Trolley Tour of Boston Mission Sites 5:00 PM Gala Reception and Dinner, Park Street Church 0 Park Street, Boston 7:00 PM Keynote Address: “From 1810 – 2010” Todd Johnson, Editor, The Atlas of Global Christianity Registration covering costs of materials, luncheon, trolley tour and banquet ($50) For details & deadline for registration, contact the Boston Theological Institute 210 Herrick Road, Newton Center, MA 02459 – T: 617-527-4880 Email: btioffice@bostontheological.org * American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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A Conference on America’s First Sponsor of Overseas Christian Missions
Author Anne Rice said last week that she was ‘quitting Christianity:’ The once-lapsed Catholic wrote that she was could no longer accept her religion’s teachings on homosexuality, feminism, politics and birth control. “In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian,” Rice announced on her facebook page.
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Spiritual but not religious?
In the past eight years, Focus’ workforce has been reduced almost by half. Leaders are blaming the economy for a downturn in donations. But it does raise the question whether the long goodbye of its founder, James Dobson, has had anything to do with its diminishing receipts.
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Is Focus on the Family Missing Dobson?
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
A store clerk talks religion with the man holding her up.
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Religion and the Robber