Benedict Option

How American Christians can break free from ‘slaveholder religion’

By Jonathan Merritt — May 2, 2018
(RNS) — It's been 150 years since the Civil War ended, but does the racist theology remain?

Alien citizens

By Martin E. Marty — March 8, 2017
We’ll keep reading the Bruderhof journal and related materials, to be challenged when we disagree and cheered when, as so often happens, we are jarred into agreement with these residents-with-a-difference.

Benedict, not Benedictine

By Martin E. Marty — February 23, 2017
...my Benedictine friends distance themselves from the strictly “Benedict” version, despite some corollaries, coincidences, and common sources.

Why the culture war’s losers shouldn’t retreat from public life (COMMENTARY)

By Jacob Lupfer — July 1, 2015
(RNS) It is harmful to religion and to democracy when one group is ready to turn its back on civil society and another group is ready to push it.

The conservative same-sex marriage freak-out

By Mark Silk — June 29, 2015
You would think, from the reactions of some social conservatives to the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision, that the Age of Martyrs had returned. It hasn't.
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