For months I've been starting, not finishing, re-starting, still not finishing, pieces on Christian Nationalism (CN)- or, more precisely,...

Ryan Burge, a sociologist who garners attention as a pundit on US religion, recently published an essay on Substack about a poll on...

A few weeks ago the New York Times found it newsworthy that a group of black ministers spoke out in opposition to US/Israeli atrocities...

Series Note: Once in a while, when excerpts from my online course on US religion (see below**) are timely for context, historical...

For the New Year, let’s recall two milestones on the Christian Right from the past year. One of the key architects of that movement, Pat...

In the first and second sections of this three-part post—introduced here and expanded from an article in the Encyclopedia of American...

I am so old that I can remember when people used hard copies of encyclopedias! I read the World Book Encyclopedia as a kid, and later I...

This post is cross-published here on Narrative Paths Journal I fielded a query from a University of Tennessee campus newspaper about...

Like all too many aspects of polling about religions and secularisms, the discourse about "spiritual" is largely broken. It registers...

I’m writing this note after reading a New York Times piece about Trump’s recent suggestion to combat coronavirus by “injecting” a form of...

Imagine that a shark has a fish literally inside its jaws, but cannot bite down. Prayer is like that. It is like a “toxin” that makes you...

I've built up several cheesy but memorable “mottos” for the academic study of religion, to use in teaching. The focus today is “this...

NOTE: I am publishing tomorrow, in October 2024, a note to link back to this article which has continuing relevance even though it first...

…Or… if you want to watch, or already did—if you are into that sort of thing—let’s compare notes. The production was fascinating in...

People have asked me about the news du jour —that the flagship evangelical magazine Christianity Today (CT) called for impeaching Mr....

I know I’m not supposed to play the proud parent too much, especially when my daughter (Lucia Hulsether) moves in some of the same...

I just published an article in the American Studies journal, Quarterly Horse, which features concise scholarly interventions. Here it is...

I've imagined this as a place to gather and repost—when timely and useful—earlier pieces that are “blog-friendly” but scattered to the...

In both classes I am teaching this term, I heard matter-of-fact comments about how end-times theologies correlate with “fatalism”—which...

Earlier I discussed a reporter who wanted a sound-bite about “religion” in the south—and how I wrestled this into “True and Useful...