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The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now	Protestant Preaching after the Age of Graham	The Hajj and Europe
A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation	The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq	Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River
Alawites and the Fate of Syria	Two Popes and a Primate: The Changing Face of Global Christianity	Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising
Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts	What's in a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist'	Tradition vs Charisma: The Sunni-Shi'i Divide in the Muslim World
Emancipation by What Means?	The Rise of Freethinkers	The Blood Behind the Beauty
Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion	Medieval Public Relations Battles	The Theological Third Way in Latin America
The Iberian Realm of Islam	From Forgotten Phrase to American Myth	Secularism, Past and Future
The Pandora’s Box of Religious Pluralism in the English Reformation	Financing Salvation in Late Antiquity	"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism
There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies	Rome's Wondrous Rivers	Reverence and Relics: The Holy Dead in the Pre-Modern Christian World
After Midnight	Power Behind the Throne: The Women of the War of the Roses	Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century
He Led His People Into the Desert	What to Do About the Money?	Kemalism: "The Religion of the Turk"
Figuring Out the Shape of the World	Dangerous (Thinking) Liaisons	The Far Right Stuff
To Serve God and the King?	God for Nazis	American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement	Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge	American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade	Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War	The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador
A Postcard from Yeongju, South Korea	Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse	A Postcard From Chichén Itzá
A Postcard from Jerusalem	October 2017: Martin Luther and the Reformation	A Postcard from Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
February 2016: 400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism	Iraq, Too, Must Separate Church and State	Faith-Based Groups Should Be Careful What Whey Wish For
Easter: A Season of Renewal	Speaking Truth to Catholic Power	The Catholic Voter in the Twentieth Century
Tearing Down the “Wall of Separation between Church and State”	‘Til All the World’s an Ebenezer	Changing the Constitution to Protect Adam and Eve?
The Debate That Won’t Die	Affirming “Under God” Ruling Is a Higher Form of Patriotism	How Hanukkah Became the Jewish Christmas
The Myth of the Jewish Antichrist: Falwell Stumbles Badly	Chanukah Candles Shed Light on Mideast Conflict	Embracing the Pope–Selectively

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