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God Land the Midwest’s Shifting Religious Landscape

Recently, I read Lyz Lenz’s new book, God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America. The book is an examination of changes in religion and politics and the way these changes have played out in towns…

Allison Vander Broek

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Prayer, Parish Life, and Spiritual Practice Across Generational Divides

We’re entering the slow summer months at church. I love these months. Easter and Pentecost have passed. We’ve started having just one service on Sunday mornings instead of two. Our young adult group is planning more dinners out for our…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Thank You, Rachel

A little over a month ago, Rachel Held Evans passed away after a brief illness. After her death, there was an outpouring of grief from people across the religious spectrum. Just recently, beautiful reflections on her life and legacy were…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Pro-lifers Gone Wild: A Brief History of Bad Behavior

Pro-lifers must reckon with this history, this legacy of bad behavior and at times outright violence that have all too often been a defining feature of pro-life activism.

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Aborted Dialogue: How the Hardliners Co-opted and Corrupted the Right-to-Life Movement

In light of recent events, outcry, and misinformation surrounding New York’s Reproductive Health Act over the last month, I’ve been reflecting on an incident I came across while doing research for my dissertation. The story goes like this: President Carter,…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Reading for the Civic Mind

One of my favorite things about the last two years has been a new tradition started with my best friend from back home in Iowa--our weekly long-distance book club. I don’t even remember whose idea it was but at some…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Out of the Bubble

It’s not an infrequent occurrence that my friends will reference a song from the 1990s or early 2000s and I have no idea what they’re talking about. My response is usually along the lines of “No, I’ve never heard that…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Evangelicalism, Purity Culture, and Patriarchy

A few weeks ago my sister texted me and told me to turn on NPR immediately. Terry Gross was interviewing Linda Kay Klein about her new book, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Religious Categories Reimagined

As a scholar of American religion, one of my favorite things to do is to think about the ways we sort Americans based on religion. Is it by self-identified religious affiliation? The church or synagogue or mosque one attends? A…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Faith’s Shifting Landscape: The Conversation Continues

Faith’s Shifting Landscape: The Conversation Continues by Allison Vander Broek I wrote a post two weeks ago on millenials, religion, and the shifting faith landscape in America. In that post, I discussed the difficulties of transitioning to a different sort…

Allison Vander Broek

Allison Vander Broek

God Land the Midwest’s Shifting Religious Landscape

Prayer, Parish Life, and Spiritual Practice Across Generational Divides

Thank You, Rachel

Pro-lifers Gone Wild: A Brief History of Bad Behavior

Aborted Dialogue: How the Hardliners Co-opted and Corrupted the Right-to-Life Movement

Reading for the Civic Mind

Out of the Bubble

Evangelicalism, Purity Culture, and Patriarchy

Religious Categories Reimagined

Faith’s Shifting Landscape: The Conversation Continues

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