Alarm about Trump’s presidency — and the anti-intellectual forces several scholars say he has empowered — pervaded the annual joint meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature, which ended Nov. 21.
Letters to the Editor
The latest from our readers: • Roy Moore election would legitimize guilt for everyone except the perpetrator | Susan Glass, Kingsport, Tenn. • Truth is truth, no matter who says it | Philip Brown, Macon, Ga. • Why not more letters? | Kirby D. Smith, Chesterfield, Va.
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The latest from our readers • Stand up for Christianity in the face of evangelicalism’s mess | David Hicks, Shanghai, China
Christianity is political. But America’s politically active Christians seem to be forgetting that.
Some appear to be open to establishing a pattern whereby even egregious moral failure is a price worth paying for political and cultural power; one need not seek actual goodness, but only not to exceed the badness of one’s opponents.
Two Texas churches, linked by tragedy amid the pews
Baptist churches in the Texas towns of Daingerfield and Sutherland Springs have become sister congregations, linked by eerily similar attacks 37 years apart.
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The latest from our readers • The wedding cake case is not religious discrimination | Stan Hastey, West Palm Beach. Fla.
Christian support for Roy Moore ‘looks like hypocrisy to the outside world’
Recent allegations against the aspiring Alabama senator fit a long and complicated history of religious debates about sex.
GOP ‘war’ on Johnson Amendment turns serious
When last we visited Republican meddling with the Johnson Amendment, it was (according to me) much ado about very little. With passage of the tax bill in the House of Representatives, it has turned into something serious.