The scholarly quest for the roots of the religious right has already passed through several iterations. Darren Dochuk's impressive book builds on this work and pushes the narrative back another generation or two.
Mark Silk notes an interesting moment at the Republican
presidential debate Monday night in New Hampshire: Rick Santorum's take on
religion in public life sounds an awful lot like the one then-Senator Obama articulated in 2006.
Christians need to support the cause of a Palestinian state that
will live peacefully beside Israel—and at the same
time reach out to our Jewish neighbors in
friendship and love and shared commitment to the common good.
As we move into the long season that bids us celebrate the commonplace and to seek the God who dwells within the daily, what sort of blessing might you need?
Werner Herzog's hypnotic documentary—which
takes us into the Chauvet Cave, where the oldest paintings known to
humankind were discovered in 1994—is the first movie to suggest a
convincing reason for the invention of 3D cinema.