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Joseph R. Reisert (Chairman, Gov. Dept., Colby College) writes about Robert Putnam’s talk about American Grace at Colby and why Putnam is optimistic about future prospects of American religion, despite current frictions between some American Christians and Muslims:
…Americans are very religious . Our people are, on average, far…
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Lisa Miller of Newsweek cites American Grace for her perspective that Americans’ grace doesn’t yet extend to Buddhists (or Muslims).
While researching their forthcoming book about American religion, the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam and his colleagues polled on this hypothetical question: Say a group of Buddhists wanted…
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American Grace co-author Dave Campbell was recently interviewed by NPR’s Barbara Bradley Hagerty about Brian McLaren’s new book A New Kind of Christianity. McLaren rejects the old view that he was brought up with of “a God who needs blood in order to be appeased.” Instead, McLaren believes that “God revealed, in Christ crucified,…
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