A new issue of the Journal of Religion, Identity, and Politics is out. Michael J. Ard reviews Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M. Barry. An excerpt from The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century by Matthew S. Hedstrom. Mickey Maudlin on why evangelicals have all the bestsellers. Why do evangelicals talk to journalists? They know they may be depicted unsympathetically, but any chance to spread the Word is worth taking. Christian worker Walter Slonopas quits over 666 on tax form. Jonathan Dudley on the not-so-lofty origins of the evangelical pro-life movement: “The religious right of the late twentieth century organized to perpetuate racial discrimination”. Rev. William E. Alberts on the Bible and the Other: When ethnic cleansing is next to Godliness.
