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Religion UnpluggedWhat MLK Can Teach Us About Morality In An AI Era
(ANALYSIS) When MLK said character should be a goal of education, he presumably meant that moral intelligence should be developed. Everyone (except the psychopath) has a sense of morality. That’s what Jefferson meant when he declared that all...
PaleoJudaiciaAdam, Time and Tradition: Temporal Thinking in Ecclesiastes ... (Mohr Siebeck)
Feminism and Religion"State of Siege by Beth Bartlett
Moderator’s Note: We are breaking into our hiatus because of the importance of what is happening in Minnesota. FAR is not designed for breaking news but we do look at underlying patterns about what is going on in the world and what we are seeing is...
Ancient Jew ReviewPlato, Politics, and Faith
Joseph Trigg and Robin Darling Young posit the unabashedly philosophical character of Celsus’s challenge and Origen’s response as the basis of their project.
NSRNSecular Religious Education? Brief Reflections Based on a Brazilian Case
Guilherme Borges is a postdoctoral researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning and at the Nonreligion in a Complex Future project, based at the University of Ottawa. Drawing on these dual affiliations, he conducts comparative...
Political TheologyBeyond the Politics of Numbness
Against the backdrop of Gaza and Europe’s muted response, this essay reflects on Elad Lapidot’s challenge to recognize the violence hidden in the language of peace. Source
Religion Unplugged‘Moral Anarchy’: Supreme Court Confronts The Meaning Of Sex In Landmark Sports Cases
(OPINION) Christians understand what science reveals: masculinity and femininity are fixed moral categories that God has made and declared to be good. When societies reject God’s moral law, anarchy results. God’s people must boldly declare to...
PaleoJudaiciaPerformance, Space, and Time in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill)
Religion UnpluggedWhere Evangelicals Live (And Where They Don’t)
(ANALYSIS) Where are there lots of evangelical Christians in the United States, and where is it hard to find one? That’s actually a really difficult question to answer from a methodological perspective. Very few surveys offer enough granularity...
Religion UnpluggedPueblo Leader Po’pay And The Origins Of American Religious Freedom
(ANALYSIS) Religious movements and figures played a central role in early American history. For example, as I have frequently written, Thanksgiving is linked to Protestant religious dissenters we call Pilgrims and Puritans. American myth tells...
Religion UnpluggedMLK And Thich Nhat Hanh: The Friendship That Shaped A ‘Beloved Community’
(ANALYSIS) Before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, he asked several of his friends to continue his life’s work building what he called “beloved community.” One of the people he invited was the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, poet and mindfulness...
Canopy Forum“Justice Before Formality: Reframing Women’s Right to Maintenance in Pakistan” by Jo Chitlik
Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan by King Elliot (CC BY-SA 4.0). Since its founding in 1947, Pakistan’s trajectory on women’s rights has been marked by a persistent tension between constitutional promises of equality and periods of legal ambiguity....
Religion UnpluggedBeyond Mary: The Bible’s Courageous Women And The Rise of Thecla
(ANALYSIS) The Bible portrayed many courageous women, yet few appeared as leaders in the New Testament. Early Christian apocryphal texts preserved such figures, including Thecla, who endured persecution, performed miracles, preached the gospel,...
Religion in United States HistoryCall for Papers: Anthropology at the End of Worlds
Due February 23, 2026
White Too LongTrump Rips Off the Mask: My Conversation with Zeteo's John Harwood
A recording from Robert P. Jones and John Harwood's live video
The Commons by APRIL OnlineOn Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration: Oaths of Office and the Myth of a Single Sacred Book
Add excerpt here. The post On Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration: Oaths of Office and the Myth of a Single Sacred Book appeared first on April Online.
Religion UnpluggedCrossroads Podcast: Why This Heisman Trophy Winner’s Faith Isn’t News
A recent New York Times feature noted that quarterback Fernando Mendoza, before helping change University of Indiana football history, excelled at Belen Jesuit, an all-boys Catholic school in Miami, and then Miami Columbus High, another all-boys...
ReligionProfWhat is Truth in the Era of Bots?
I am teaching a course about misinformation and the Bible this semester and Pilate’s famous question “What is truth?” has been in my mind, and what truth is in the era of bots that we find ourselves in. This blog provides not only a useful...
The ConversationThecla, the beast fighter: The saint who faced down lions and killer seals is one of many ‘leading ladies’ in early Christian texts
The Christian apocrypha, texts not included in the Bible, include stories of Jesus’ female followers – including St. Thecla.
Religion UnpluggedFor Jewish Women, ‘Passing’ As Christian During The Holocaust Left Scars
During the Holocaust, concealment was a condition of survival under persecution. Survivors’ testimony illuminates both the ingenuity required to endure such pressure and the emotional costs of erasing parts of oneself. In a moment of rising...
Religion UnpluggedHow A Career Choice By My Wife Led Me To The Godbeat 25 Years Ago
Perhaps not surprisingly, in a Bible Belt state such as Oklahoma, religion came up even in prison reporting — from Catholic bishops making appeals at clemency hearings to Allen, the inmate whose death I witnessed, declaring in her final...
Ancient Jew ReviewIn Defense of Celsus
In this short tribute to Origen and his translators, I suggest that, among much else, Origen shows paradoxically how strong a mainstream polytheist’s case could be against Christianity in the second century, and how even a brilliant apologist...
Religion UnpluggedChristian Author And Publishing Titan Robert Wolgemuth Dies At Age 77
Robert D. Wolgemuth, a respected Christian author, publisher and literary agent whose quiet leadership helped shape evangelical publishing for more than five decades, died on Jan. 10. He was 77. His family said Wolgemuth succumbed after “a brief...
Good Faith MediaICE Storm: Echoes of 1930s Germany
When a person is willing to use a lie to further their own interests, no matter the damage it causes to others and the nation, the hubris will take us to dark and devastating places. The post ICE Storm: Echoes of 1930s Germany appeared first on...
PaleoJudaiciaGaloppin & Lebreton (eds.), Divine Names on the Spot III (Peeters)
PaleoJudaiciaDarby, Shaping Text Through Song (Brill)
Canopy Forum“Generations on Generations of Human Rights” by M. Christian Green
New York City Skyline by Janusz Sobolewski (CC BY 2.0). Recently, a number of us on staff at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, ranging from Gen Z to Baby Boomers, had the occasion to take stock of different generations and their...
Political TheologyNegative Political Theology as a Way of Life
Whenever someone tries to become an absolute sovereign, to make oneself “King” or “God”, such an act of sovereignization brings about the de-sovereignization or in-sovereignization of everyone else. Source
The ConversationThe hidden power of grief rituals
Grief can inspire concrete acts of loyalty and generosity.
Religion in United States HistoryGraduate Student Prize: Walter Rundell Graduate Student Awards
The Western History Association invites applications for the Walter Rundell Graduate Student Award, honoring the late Walter Rundell, Jr.’s dedication to graduate education in Western History.
Good Faith MediaThe Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty Offers “Confronting Christian Nationalism: Faith-Rooted Organizing for Clergy”
The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) and Christians Against Christian Nationalism (CACN) are confronting the rise of Christian nationalism by offering “Faith-Rooted Organizing for Clergy.” The post The Baptist Joint Committee for...
Good Faith MediaCourage Over Compliance: Praying for More Shiphrah and Puah Energy
Like the midwives, we may not know how the story will unfold before us, but we can still have the courage to do the next faithful thing. The post Courage Over Compliance: Praying for More Shiphrah and Puah Energy appeared first on Good Faith Media.
Good Faith MediaHow a Buddhist Walk for Peace Gave Me Hope for the Church
A Buddhist “Walk for Peace” through South Carolina drew thousands across religious and political lines—and offered Christian communities a powerful lesson about peace and public witness. The post How a Buddhist Walk for Peace Gave Me Hope for the...
PaleoJudaiciaKaufman, Phoenicia, Carthage, and Popular Government in the Pre-Classical Mediterranean (OUP)
PaleoJudaiciaReligion at Carthage 800 BCE-439 CE (Brill)
PaleoJudaiciaNew evidence for the construction of Cartagena's city wall.
Religion in United States HistoryReligion and the American Founding Conference
Online and in-person at BYU (National Museum of American Religion)
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraThe Neglected Master
In 2006, Samuel Menashe won a prize for not winning prizes—and, for a brief downtown moment, his tiny, holy poems threaded through New York’s seemingly reemergent Jewish literary scene. Then it all came to an end. The post The Neglected Master...
Religion and PoliticsThe Neglected Master
In 2006, Samuel Menashe won a prize for not winning prizes—and, for a brief downtown moment, his tiny, holy poems threaded through New York’s seemingly reemergent Jewish literary scene. Then it all came to an end. The post The Neglected Master...
Ancient Jew ReviewA New Translation of Contra Celsum
A forum in celebration of Robin Darling Young and Joseph Wilson Trigg’s The Contra Celsum of Origen: English Translation and Facing Greek text (Washington and Cambridge: Harvard University Press/Dumbarton Oaks, 2026).
Political TheologyJan 22: African Political Theology Webinar + Resources
Join the Political Theology Network for the first in a series of webinars on African Political Theology, constructed as dialogues between scholars and practitioners around a theme. Statecraft: Thursday, January 22, 2026 Noon (Eastern US / 5pm UK /...
The ConversationFor some Jewish women, ‘passing’ as Christian during the Holocaust could mean survival – but left scars all the same
Some women adopted non-Jewish identities to support the resistance. For most, though, it was simply a strategy for survival – one with constant risk of exposure and execution.
The ConversationBuilding ‘beloved community’: Remembering the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh
Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh shared a vision of ‘beloved community’ that shows how democracy begins not with power, but with how we live together.
Ancient Jew ReviewContra Celsum from Caesarea to Constantinople: The Travels of a Byzantine Book
Celsus’ views about empire and cult, whether they were pagan or Christian, were far from dead in the fourth century; they appear in Christian sermons and treatises – not just in their pagan echoes in Porphyry and Julian.
PaleoJudaiciaPoppaea's house at Pompeii?
PaleoJudaiciaTwo more Barkay obituaries
PaleoJudaiciaAlbanese, Translation Technique and Literary Structures in Greek Isaiah 13:1–14:23 (SBL)
Good Faith MediaA Song Someone is Dying to Hear: Did Amy Grant Just Join the Resistance?
The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm)” is Grant’s statement that justice and protest are not separate categories from the good news of Jesus. The post A Song Someone is Dying to Hear: Did Amy Grant Just Join the Resistance? appeared first on Good...
Good Faith MediaNo one has a Monopoly on God: Embracing Interfaith Wisdom
What I’ve discovered is learning from other traditions has not weakened my Christian faith; it has clarified it. The post No one has a Monopoly on God: Embracing Interfaith Wisdom appeared first on Good Faith Media.
