religious history

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• 5/12/19
  

  Jane Manning James and African American Women in the Mormon Church

  by Quincy D. Newell

  Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a free black woman who converted to Mormonism in the early 1840s, provides a little-known vantage point from which to tell a story of Mormonism that takes the church’s racial history into account.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/2/19
  

  How Franklin Graham betrayed his father’s legacy

  by Nancy Beck Young

  Instead of treating issues of sexuality with compassion, Graham has weaponized them.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/28/19
  

  The Other Notre-Dame Was Not Rebuilt

  by Amy Wilentz

  Perhaps France should help Haiti, its former colony, rebuild the cathedral lost in the 2010 earthquake.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/24/19
  

  A 500-Year-Old Tale of Intrigue, Greed and Betrayal

  “The Lost Gutenberg” revolves around Margaret Leslie Doheny’s pursuit of her trophy and what became of it after her death.

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• 4/21/19
  

  The Middle East, Land Disputes, and Religious History

  by Zaman Stanizai

  Can a land be claimed on the basis of the scriptural myths of one religion with implied exclusion of all other religious communities?

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/17/19
  

  Why Pete Buttigieg may be reviving progressive ideals of the Social Gospel Movement

  by David Mislin

  A century ago views such as Buttigieg’s flourished in the Midwest.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  Why you don’t need to be French or Catholic to mourn the Notre Dame fire

  by Kisha G. Tracy

  The cathedral is an important part of our shared cultural heritage.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/16/19
  

  The story behind the towering Notre Dame spire and the 30-year-old architect commissioned to rebuild it

  Less than a week before fire tore through Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a repair crew brought down religious statues for the first time in more than a century. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/15/19
  

  A history of great cathedrals that have been lost to fire and war

  Notre Dame is one in a long line of cathedrals that have been ravaged by fire or war.

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• 4/15/19
  

  The Sorrow of Watching Notre Dame Burn

  by Ed Simon

  "In this age of uncertainty, of rage, of horror, and of violence; of the decline of democracy and the heating of the planet; it can feel as if Notre-Dame’s fire is as if watching the very world itself be engulfed."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/11/19
  

  Muslims arrived in America 400 years ago as part of the slave trade and today are vastly diverse

  by Saeed Ahmed Khan 

  Some of the earliest arrivals to this land were Muslim immigrants.

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• 3/31/19
  

  The Holocaust and the Christian World

  by Patrick Henry

  A new book offers reflections on the past of antisemitism and challenges for combatting it today. 

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• SOURCE: Process
  3/18/19
  

  Evangelicals and Immigration: A Conflicted History

  by Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen

  Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busy resettling the newly arrived refugees. 

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• 3/17/19
  

  The Antigay "Traditional Plan" and the History of the Methodist Church

  by Christopher M. Bishop

  Until this month, slavery was the only other issue that seriously threatened the unity of American Methodism.

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• 3/17/19
  

  The Cult of Trump

  by Michael A. Genovese

  Come home Republicans.  We need you.

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• SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  3/10/19
  

  God once opposed interracial marriage, too

  by Jonathon Zimmerman

  The Methodist Church turned away from human equality last week. It's on the wrong side of history, but it will right itself soon enough.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/11/19
  

  What lessons can the clergy sex abuse crisis draw from a 4th-century church schism?

  by Cavan W. Concannon

  Known as the Donatist controversy, it caused a schism that lasted for centuries and offers a parallel for thinking about the impact of these crises on contemporary Christian communities today.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/6/19
  

  The History of Sexism in the Southern Baptist Church

  by Susan M. Shaw

  Recent media reports have revealed decades of abuse by Southern Baptist pastors. Here is the history behind the reports.

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/5/19
  

  Pope Francis Says Secret Archives On Holocaust-Era Pope Pius XII Will Be Opened Early

  “The church is not afraid of history,” Pope Francis said, announcing the move in a speech to members of the Vatican’s Secret Archives. 

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• SOURCE: Narratively.com
  Accessed 3/4/19
  

  The Black Pastor Whose “Turban Trick” Exposed American Racism

  by Paul Kramer and Ashanti Forston

  Rev. Routté bluffed his way into first-class treatment in the Jim Crow-era south — unmasking the ridiculous hypocrisy of segregation.