Zoe Robinson (DePaul): What is a “Religious Institution”? Brett A. Geier (South Florida): Texas Cheerleaders and the First Amendment: Can You Cheer for God at a Football Game? Why I hate religion but love Jesus: Jesus>Religion YouTube Star Jefferson Bethke challenges American Christians with new book. Challenging (but promising) moment for America's religious colleges: Though they may seem vulnerable amid the threats of higher ed "disruption", this time could be a propitious one for America's colleges of faith, Thomas Albert Howard argues. Michael David on 10 popular types of black preachers you'll meet on Sunday. “John Galt is a heathen!”: Stuart McAnulla on the inconvenient atheism of Ayn Rand. Are Christians entering a new Dark Age? Richard Land wonders (and part 2). Malcolm Gladwell visits Glenn Beck, finds religion. “I've wept for America”: Billy Graham laments country's direction in final sermon on 95th birthday. Should historians weep for liberal Protestantism? A. I. Jacobs reviews After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History by David A. Hollinger. Hipster Jesus is coming to an atheist church near you. Amanda Marcotte on the “hip” Christian Right-wingers trying to make conservative Christianity look cool for the kids. Michael Todd on how there are hundreds of practicing exorcists in the U.S. Peter Berkowitz reviews Defending American Religious Neutrality by Andrew Koppelman. Rachel Maddow says the Bush administration was trying to bring about the end of the world.
