Photo by Joshua Sukoff on Unsplash. This article is part of our “Reflecting on Barth, Bonhoeffer and Modern Politics” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. From his very first line, Joshua Mauldin establishes immediately what is at stake in his new thought-provoking volume Barth, Bonhoeffer, & Modern Politics: “Modern…
Photo by Utsav Srestha on Unsplash. This article is part of our “Reflecting on Barth, Bonhoeffer and Modern Politics” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Beloved author J.R.R. Tolkien survived the First World War’s trenches, confronted the intellectual challenges and questions of modernity, and then wrote his epic works…
Photo by Thaï Ch. Hamelin on Unsplash. This article is part of our “At Home and Abroad” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. It’s no secret that tensions exist in the ways that the government of the United States treats “religion” in different contexts. In the domestic sphere, private…
Photo by Eberhard Grossgasteiger on Unsplash. This article is part of our “Reflecting on Barth, Bonhoeffer and Modern Politics” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were theological titans of the twentieth century who naturally wrote mostly about the interpretation of Christian doctrines. That they…
Photo by Jake Ingle on Unsplash. This article is part of our “At Home and Abroad” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Every now and then, social media resurfaces a meme I’ve come to think of as the “American Jesus” post. A screenshot from a conversation on Facebook, the…
Photo by Ludovic Charlet on Unsplash. This article is part of our “What’s Wrong with Rights?” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The Development of Human Rights Half a century ago, the world welcomed some of the most remarkable human rights documents it had ever seen. The United States…
Photo by Pedro Lima on Unsplash. In a recently issued report, the RAND Corporation highlighted a dimension of the impact that the government response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had on trust. It noted that trust in the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declined significantly between May and…
Photo by Robert Tudor on Unsplash. This article is part of our “At Home and Abroad” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan open their edited volume At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion (Columbia University Press, 2020) with an epigraph:…
Interior of a Gothic Cathedral by Paul Vredeman De Vries, 1612. From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This article is part of our “Religious Corporations and the Law” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. This article is in response to Edward David’s recent article in Canopy. From…
Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash. This article is part of our “Religious Corporations and the Law” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. What is a religious corporation? After a number of high profile U.S. Supreme Court decisions over the past decade, this question has assumed great significance as…