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Who is the Museum of the Bible really for? Scholarly book examines multiple problems
By Yonat Shimron — July 25, 2019
(RNS) — The academic community's critiques have been collected in a book cataloging a host of ills, from the museum's focus on the Protestant Bible to faked artifacts to an alleged evangelical agenda.

Museum of the Bible pulls Dead Sea Scroll fragments found to be forged
By Yonat Shimron — October 22, 2018
(RNS) — This is not the first time the museum has faced questions about the problematic origins of some of its antiquities.

Foundation donates campus to Catholic college, Protestant center
By Adelle M. Banks — February 7, 2017
(RNS) After other deals fell through, the campus is expected to house a California-based college and a center highlighting the legacy of evangelist Dwight L. Moody.

COMMENTARY: Have corporations become modern-day golems?
By Jack Moline — July 22, 2014
(RNS) The rhetorical devices that ascribe the characteristics of a citizen to the legal fiction called a “corporation” are the mud and magic that produce a golem.

COMMENTARY: Let Americans follow their religious beliefs
By Tony Perkins — February 10, 2014
(RNS) Without a positive result from the Supreme Court, the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby, will be forced to pay millions of dollars in federal fines if they maintain their convictions.

En route to Sotheby’s, Bay Psalm Book traces nation’s seesaw religious history
By David Van Biema — November 20, 2013
(RNS) The Bay Psalm Book “is for American book collecting what the Guttenberg Bible has been for collecting, period,” said Bill Reese, a major dealer in printed Americana “…Except there are 46 copies of the Guttenberg.”

Non-Christian groups could win free Mass. campus
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — September 3, 2013
(RNS) The National Christian Foundation has been seeking a new owner for a campus and is now entertaining proposals from organizations that do not seek to spread the Christian gospel – at least not explicitly.

Free Mass. campus given to Christian foundation
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — January 3, 2013
(RNS) Christian institutions hoping to win a free campus in western Massachusetts might soon face competition from others who are willing to pay for it, according to terms of a year-end donation from the property’s billionaire owners. By G. Jeffrey MacDonald.

After winning free campus, Grand Canyon University says ‘no thanks’
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — October 29, 2012

(RNS) Just five weeks after accepting a free 217-acre campus in western Massachusetts, Grand Canyon University is walking away from the gift. By G. Jeffrey MacDonald.

For-profit Christian college wins free campus
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — September 20, 2012

(RNS) A for-profit, Christian university in Arizona has won one of the education world’s most sought-after prizes: a free, historic, freshly renovated campus in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts.

Mass. alumni don’t want Liberty to get free campus
By Tracy Gordon — March 6, 2012

(RNS) Alumni of a scenic boarding school in western Massachusetts say they don't want a wealthy Christian family to give the campus to Liberty University, calling Liberty's values "hateful" and "divisive." By G. Jeffrey MacDonald.

After C.S. Lewis College flops, a free campus for the taking
By Tracy Gordon — February 21, 2012

NORTHFIELD, Mass. (RNS) The billionaire Oklahoma family that owns the 217-acre college campus here aims to give it away to a Christian institution for free. All the winner needs is an orthodox Christian vision and the financial wherewithal to pull it off. By G. Jeffrey MacDonald.

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