The most-read Then & Now posts
Here are this year's most-read posts from Then & Now, a weekly blog feature by historians of religion.
1) Molly Worthen on Billy Graham and the fracture of American evangelicalism
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The church cannot bless war
A Christianity that affirms the state’s wars is not Christianity. It is idolatry.
The new Bonhoeffer movie isn’t just bad. It’s dangerous.
By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.
What do we mean when we say something is “in the Bible”?
A new database of more than 900 biblical translations presents a prism of cultures, languages, and meanings.
When religion joins the UFO conversation
“The nexus of religion, technology, and culture is more interrelated than most people assume,” says professor and filmmaker Brett Robinson.