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Flunking Sainthood
Live Blogging the Royal Wedding
By
Jana Riess
3:37 a.m. Aaaaugh! Insomnia again. Well, at least there’s something interesting to watch on TV. Forget about my plans to TiVo the royal wedding and see it tonight. Now I will be watching with millions of other people! It’s, like, a religious experience! 4:02 a.m. Barbara Walters just informed me that there 775 rooms in…
Cover art for “Flunking Sainthood”
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Jana Riess
Got my cover art today! I am so pleased with what Paraclete came up with. Here is the second draft, with some more small tweaks on color & text to come. –JKR
Remembering Edwin Gaustad, 1923-2011
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Jana Riess
I learned this week that my former professor and mentor, Edwin Gaustad, passed away near the end of March. (Here is the obit from the New York Times and another from the Washington Post.) I was lucky enough to study with him during the one year he was a visiting professor at Princeton Theological Seminary,…
The Civil War and America as a Christian Nation
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Jana Riess
The Civil War began 150 years ago today, an anniversary marked by the rebroadcast of Ken Burns’s masterful PBS series and a kajillion re-enactments this year. As we pause at this sesquicentennial commemoration we would do well to think of the Civil War as what Eric Foner rightly called it: America’s Second Revolution. The Civil…
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