Religion UnpluggedHistory nerds rejoice! An incredibly detailed land-use survey and census from the 1500s, commissioned by none other than Henry VIII, will soon be digitally available to everyone, including genealogists, educators, researchers and community...
Contending ModernitiesTargeting Jews for the way they express themselves as Jews is very clearly not part of a struggle against antisemitism, but antisemitic itself. The post Letter from Scholars of the Holocaust, Jewish History, and Antisemitism Against the Adoption of...
ReligionProfI have been wondering for a while, but especially in the past couple of days, about what to call those who tend to be labeled as “conservative Christians” and yet are neither conservative nor Christian in any meaningful sense. As a scholar of...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) Iran’s leaders warned the United States and Israel of retaliation as nationwide protests challenged the Islamic Republic’s theocracy. Facing mounting deaths and unrest, Iranian officials framed dissent as foreign-backed chaos,...
PaleoJudaicia ReligionProfWhy would I say that “Evangelicals View God as Like Donald Trump”? It struck me quite suddenly recently that there is a parallel between how Evangelicals view “faith” and how they approach political leaders. When we realize this, we understand what...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) The Japanese tea ceremony is deeply rooted in the ideals of Zen Buddhism, but the current matcha hype has little to do with the tea ceremony. Green tea has become part of the on-the-go coffee culture. On social media, a centuries-old...
Political TheologyThe ability or inability of insiders to hear the silences that arise on the other side of the borders drawn by colonizing societies around themselves, to perceive them as the echo of missing voices, may constitute, for the victims of colonialism,...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) There’s this well-worn phrase you hear in Christian circles: “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.” It’s often used by pastors to remind people that simply showing up on...
Religion UnpluggedRaising up the next generation of church leaders is “vitally important,” says Brian Frable, pastor of Kona Baptist Church on the Big Island of Hawaii. It’s important to Kona Baptist Church and the Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention “as we advance...
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