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“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.” Sherlock Holmes

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Podcasting in the Age of Corona

28 Mar 202028 Mar 2020
Now that classrooms across the country--including mine--have moved online, I have been trying to find ways to supplement my students' education. In addition to lecturing via Zoom and using discussion…
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Now out from New Political Science

23 Feb 202023 Feb 2020
I'm excited the announce that my article on Occupy Wall Street's liberal civil religion, what I term a civil religion of the Nones (CRN), is now out from New Political Science.…
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Election Day a National Holiday

11 Nov 201911 Nov 2019
I published the following piece about making election day a national holiday in the Providence Journal. As I say toward the end of the Op-Ed: We are in the midst of…
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“Rediscovering Civil Religion in America” TEDx Tufts talk

11 Nov 201911 Nov 2019
This last March I had the honor of giving a TEDx talk at Tufts University. My talk, "Rediscovering Civil Religion in America," offers some thoughts on the value of a…
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A Nation Without a Soul? A Response to Sarah L. Houser’s “Accountability Nationalism”

8 May 201711 Nov 2019
[NOTE: This piece first appeared in Starting Points, a Journal of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy] Nationalism and religious life are intricately intertwined in the United States. A “civil religion…
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The Constitution: An Owner’s Manual Without Instructions

20 Mar 201711 Nov 2019
NOTE: This originally appeared on my personal profile through Huffington Post Contributor's platform. When I teach my introduction to Political Science class about the Constitution, I tell them to think of it…
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Bernie Sanders’s Religion Problem

1 Feb 201611 Nov 2019
There is a spectre haunting Bernie Sanders’s presidential run, but it isn’t the one you’re thinking. I’m talking about the other “S” word—not socialism, but secularism. It is a facet of…
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Nation with the Soul of a . . . Nondescript Religious Establishment

24 May 201511 Nov 2019
Last week I had the privilege of having my Op-Ed, "The Rise of the 'Nones,'" published in the Providence Journal.  The piece can be found at the paper's opinions website, or read here…
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Prayer Breakfast Primer

18 Mar 201519 Mar 2015
The National Prayer Breakfasts began as anything but national.  Founded by a Norwegian methodist minister, Abram Vereide, they offered Seattle businessmen spiritual support during the depths of the Depression.  The…
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Forthcoming: Discussion of Prayer Breakfasts

4 Mar 2015
Last month, President Obama delivered--what turned out to be--a somewhat controversial address.  The majority of the speech condemned religious violence, in particular ISIS, in the strongest possible language.  At one point…

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