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No other nation has conjoined business success and piety quite like America has. Is Donald Trump’s election a strange perversion of this tradition?
Want to know why Hillary isn’t president? Just turn to the Bible.
Younger evangelicals have a very different view of their faith.Their perspective on issues such as immigration and economic inequality differs widely from that of the religious right.
Humans have invented many technologies to survive better – spears, pots, calculators, even language. With language, however, the raw material used to fashion the technology is the human body itself.
A lot of people thought America’s religious right was losing its mojo – but it’s still got the wherewithal to build a $172m ark.
We need to change our outlook if we are going to improve international relations.
The popular TV series encourages us to question how we understand identity and community in light of religion.
How do you bring someone back from the dead?
Has it really always been an absolute no no?
Jesus’ faithful companion is often cast as reformed sinner, but she may have been anything but.
Many biblical women have suffered from centuries of bad press. So what were they really like?
Judas has had a 2,000-year raw deal. Here’s why it’s time for a rethink.
Lent is inextricably linked to Jesus’s 40 days in the wilderness, right? In fact, it’s not that simple.
In offering to open church buildings across Australia as places of sanctuary for asylum seekers, church leaders are appealing to an ancient notion of how we should treat people in need of protection.
There are, after all, two very different candidates…
It’s regarded as a Biblical myth, but what the magi are supposed to have seen is rooted in astronomy.
What difference would it make to human life if a celestial event were unequivocally linked to the very night of Jesus’ birth?
Pain during labour and birth is a complex combination of physical and psychological factors.
Interpretations of Paul the apostle’s texts provided the basic fund of imagery that continues to inform popular opinion about what Christians mean when they talk about “heaven”, or “hell”.
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Associate Professor, New Testament, & Inaugural Director of The Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy, University of Divinity
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Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Adjunct professor, Theological Studies, Concordia University
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Associate Professor (New Testament Studies), University of Divinity
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Professor Emerita of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism, and Honorary Professor of the Australian Catholic University, King's College London; Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
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Cadbury Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham
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Professor of American History, Messiah College
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Associate Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University